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Pete W's Tin Shed Project.
awemawson:
Hi Pete,
About time you moved your capitial equipment back in I reckon, it's looking good :thumbup: Have you chosen the wallpaper yet :lol:
Yes our floods have receded - just a few puddles left. Since I had the stream and ditches dug out about three years ago the floods rarely stay longer than a day these days. Amazing the sheer volume of water that comes our way, then eventually exits to the sea at Rye Harbour. Mind you they are threatening another downpour in a few days, maybe that'll wash the remaining dirty sheep. Some came out quite clean after the last downpour :ddb:
... the Myford - put it on ebay rather than scrap it - it may help someone out with spares at least.
Andrew
Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew,
Thank you for your continuing interest.
I hope that you have had or are still having an enjoyable Christmas. I've put on almost six pounds (that's avoirdupois) since last Sunday!! Who'd have thought a couple of mince pies and an individual Christmas pud would contain so many calories? :D :D :D
I'm glad your floods have subsided. I think a lot of the trouble is hard-paved car standings and driveways - they just shoot the water down the drain and result in flash floods.
When I built our 'parking pad' on part of our front garden, I opted for a concrete-less construction with a rammed earth base and load-bearing plastic grids so the rain can still soak in to our sandy subsoil. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
No wallpaper in the shed - there's not enough clear wall area for wallpaper. J&L/MSC sent me a nice wall-chart of drill sizes, drilling & tapping info etc. but I don't even have room for that! A couple of years ago, one of my neighbours was boasting that his shed had carpet - I said 'that's nice, mine's only got double glazing.'.
Our closest neighbours both sides are golf enthusiasts - I do get a few twitchy moments when they practice in the back garden! :ddb: :ddb: :ddb:
Pete W.:
Hi there, all,
I see from the viewing figures that this thread is still getting visits - thank you all for your interest.
I've been a bit held up by the weather - the outstanding finishing touches require that I rip down a couple of bits of wood and they're too long to do under cover. After all the recent rain the lawn is too soft and boggy to support the table saw. Still, the weather forecast hints at a few dry days ahead.
The good news is that I've been doing some work INSIDE the big shed. I hope to launch a new thread describing that soon.
I have to report that when it rains the new tin roof is much noisier than the old felted roof!
Rob.Wilson:
Now thats a cracking shed Pete ,
Well done :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Rob
Pete W.:
Hi there, all,
Here's a bit of an :update:
I've been able to do occasional odd jobs in the tin shed, though its roof is letting in a bit of water when we get heavy rain. I need to apply a bit more silicone sealant to the joints between the roof sheets.
I still have a minor job to do on the outside of the big shed (if you'll let me call an 8' x 12' shed 'big'!!). I need to fit a trim strip along one end of the roof to support the overhang of the steel roof sheets, here's the best photo I have of the overhang:
I have a piece of wood cut to length ready for this job but I need to machine a drip groove along its underside. Also, as it's thicker than the overhang, I want to bevel the upper outer edge to throw off the rain. Both these operations need me to set up the table saw on the lawn and that hasn't yet reached the top of the priority list. Then it'll need a coat of wood preservative and some sealing strip along its upper edge before fixing in position.
Oh, and I need to straighten out a couple of dents in the edge of the roof sheet. I think in an earlier post, I mentioned that the shed was overhung by a large willow tree at one end. Well, I was scared that one or more of those overhanging branches might fall casualty to the fierce winds we had a few weeks ago. So my forestry-trained step-son came along with his chain-saw and took the branches down. There was one branch that he couldn't do in easy stages, we just had to cut the whole thing. It landed twiggy end first which we knew would be risky - such a branch will bounce and then fall over and it's difficult, if not impossible, to predict the direction it will take. In this case, the butt end of the branch, some 8" in diameter, just kissed the end of the shed roof as it passed. Luckily, the steel sheet is only ½ mm thick so I expect it will be easy to straighten out the dents with my duck-bill pliers.
Other than those tasks, I have been doing a few chores inside the shed. The shed is lined with 6" x 1" boards and there were a few pieces that I hadn't fitted properly back in 2004/2005 when the shed was re-assembled on its present site. There was a pressing need back then to get the shed's contents moved in. I also have had a few ideas to improve that lining. So I've been cutting (I can cross-cut under cover - it's ripping that needs the saw out in the open air) and painting bits of 6" x 1" and screwing them into position.
That needed lots of stuff moving out of the way to give me access! :bang: :bang: :bang:
I also need to tidy up the electrics a bit.
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