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Pete W's Tin Shed Project.
Pete W.:
Hi there, all,
I've decided to pension off our smaller 6' x 8' wooden shed. If its wood were any thinner, it'd be a paper bag! When the weather is hot, the tongued & grooved boards shrink across their width and when the humidity rises again they expand but the tongues & grooves don't re-engage.
Strictly speaking, it hasn't been my workshop - that's a 12' x 8' shed, also wooden but insulated and lined with steel mesh and 6" x 1" planed boards. However, it has been used to store various items (garden tools, lawn-mower etc.) that would otherwise have taken up space in the workshop.
Note on terminology: if you're in the UK, NEVER use the word 'workshop' in a planning application! However well you define your intended use, planning departments will automatically assume that you're going to spray-paint cars and let the over-spray waft over the fence on to your neighbours' washing, or have large noisy trucks turning up in the middle of the night to deliver materials or that you're going to use lots of environmentally unfriendly chemicals. Better by far to call it a 'garden shed' to be used for domestic storage, home maintenance and hobby activities!
I was thinking of building a new, slightly larger, wooden shed but a friend offered me a shed made of ribbed galvanised steel sheet, fairly light gauge. It's slightly larger than the one we're replacing so I hope, with careful layout, to be able to run my bench grinder in there, avoiding abrasive dust in the main shed. It's not top of the league as regards insulation but beggars can't be choosers, it was free.
:worthless: so here goes:
After laying out and digging out the site, I had to get this:
into this:
(I tagged the photo 'not an advert', it's not but the tag isn't a criticism either.) I call the material 'limestone scalpings' but the builder's merchant calls it 'MOT Type 1'. The properties that make it good for the base also make it quite difficult to shovel out of the Jumbo bag! Actually, the one in the picture was the second bag; the second photo shows the site after addition of the first bag.
Before Awemawson rushes over to help with the shovel and barrow he pictured in his CNC lathe thread, I should say that the sideway is only just wide enough for an ordinary builder's barrow but thanks anyway!
:D :D :D :D :D :D
When I've got the scalpings raked-out and levelled, the next job is to position five railway sleepers so that all their upper surfaces are in the same level plane.
Watch this space.
Rob.Wilson:
Hi Pete
Cant go wrong with a free shed :med: dont envy you hand balling a couple of tone of that stuff ,,,,,,,,,looks like hard graft :coffee:
Rob
shipto:
even better yet, your allowed quite a large shop without going near the planners stick to that and you can call it whatever you like :D
Pete W.:
--- Quote from: RobWilson on May 21, 2013, 11:55:34 AM ---Hi Pete
Cant go wrong with a free shed :med: dont envy you hand balling a couple of tone of that stuff ,,,,,,,,,looks like hard graft :coffee:
Rob
--- End quote ---
Rob, thank you for your sympathy! (The delivery note says maximum weight per bag is 945 kgm.) Twenty years ago I'd have shifted it all in a short morning including a coffee break - :coffee: - nowadays, four barrow-loads and I need a lie-down! :Doh: :Doh: :Doh: :Doh:
--- Quote from: shipto on May 21, 2013, 12:56:21 PM ---even better yet, your allowed quite a large shop without going near the planners stick to that and you can call it whatever you like :D
--- End quote ---
That would have been true in places I've lived previously, I think the limit would be half the area of the back garden - here, we're in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a National Park so even the 50 cubic metres of 'permitted development' is far from certain. Besides that, we're tenants, not freeholders. :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:
One thing I didn't mention in my initial post is that this tin shed has no windows - that's NO WINDOWS. But it has double sliding doors. And, being an all metallic construction, my cheery 'music while you work' VHF radio might not work in there.
awemawson:
"Before Awemawson rushes over to help with the shovel and barrow he pictured in his CNC lathe thread, I should say that the sideway is only just wide enough for an ordinary builder's barrow but thanks anyway! "
Too late - they're already one the way !!!!!!!!!
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