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Pete W's Tin Shed Project.
vtsteam:
Now that's what I call a rugged building base! :thumbup:
DavidA:
My original shed was lathered with a mix of dark creosote and old engine oil. Looked quite good. The wood is still fine after 15 years.
As for eco-friendly. It didn't stop the weeds and suchlike growing around the shed base.
Dave.
Pete W.:
Hi there, all,
Thanks for your respective posts.
I mentioned in my initial post that my actual workshop is a 12' x 8' wooden shed. I've moved house twice since I bought it and it has moved with me each time. It's now on a concrete base but when I first got it I put it on a base comprising five railway sleepers topped with second-hand scaffold boards. In line with the suggestions above, I 'pickled' the scaffold boards with a mixture of creosote and old engine oil. That sleepers & scaffold board 'raft' accompanied it to its second site.
I didn't treat those sleepers as they were Jarrah wood, a teak-like timber once used for the sleepers on the London Underground system. I still have those sleepers, separate from this Tin Shed project. Four of them are holding up a soil bank in the garden - we sawed-up the fifth to provide timber (aka 'lumber' for USA readers) for a new living room mantelpiece! Subsequent to the 12' x 8' shed's erection on its second site, the UK authorities outlawed creosote because of its carcinogenic properties and I disposed of my remaining stock.
Pete W.:
Hi there, all,
Well, I haven't posted in this thread for a while but work has continued, lots of non-photogenic stuff like painting the foundation strips. I had to treat a few rusty patches with Jenolite (based on phosphoric acid, I think), then , because the strips are galvanised, a coat of Hammerite special primer. Then two coats of Hammerite smooth black. Maybe if I'd chosen a different colour, the result might have been more photogenic. :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:
Then, while the paint was drying, I drilled the four corners of the 'eco-sleepers' and screwed them together, like this:
I did have a bit of bother with screwing the corners together - it's described in my post on the 'Oooops' department. Lots of people have read that post but, so far, no replies!?! It was such a basic set of clangers, I guess folks are declining comment out of concern for my feelings! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Then I fitted the foundation strips to the tops of the 'eco-sleepers' and cut a set of second-hand scaffold boards into the frame to make the under-floor,
The rear-most board needs to be reduced in width but I'm postponing that until the boards have spent enough time sheltered by the superstructure to have dried-out in case they shrink across their width.
Today, with sterling help from my lovely but shy assistant, plus a timely assistance from a neighbour, we tackled the walls and roof so it now looks like this:
You can see my lovely but shy assistant in one of those photos (well, I did say she's shy). Also, Man's Best Friend! :D :D :D :D :D :D
It's still far from complete, there are still a lot of holes to podge into alignment so the screws will fit, the doors to fit, the underfloor to finish and the top floor surface (1/2" shuttering plywood) to fit and fix. Still, we seem to have got past the stage where everything wobbles! :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: :ddb:
SWMBO is now keen that I should paint the exterior - I HATE painting! :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:
Pete W.:
Hi there, all,
Just a quick addition to yesterday evening's post.
When I was offered the tin shed the deal was that I had to dismantle it and to take up the rotten wooden base. The shed had been in-situ for so long that any assembly instructions were long gone!
So, we dismantled the shed into the minimum number of pieces that would fit on the car roof-rack for transport. The shed sections then spent almost two years stacked at the bottom of our garden. During that time, my memory of how it originally went together has faded! :bang: :bang: :bang:
As a result of all that, the dismantling and the re-assembly we've done so far definitely come in the category of 'flying by the seat of our pants'. :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: I have a few parts in the box that are a mystery - I don't know where they're supposed to fit. :bang: :bang: :bang:
I've done several web searches to see if I can identify the maker of the shed and whether I could find any assembly instructions. I've found nothing that fits our shed.
If any readers of this post can confidently identify the maker of the shed, please PM me. If you have the assembly instructions that you could send as a .pdf that would be super.
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