Thread: my shed, my thinking your suggestions

Originally Posted by rjtwin501

I will not home for a couple of weeks so a photo would be down the track a bit.
Out visiting our kids getting some of our own back. Set up in their backyard, their power mostly their tucker and we get to play with their toys. Grand kids and sometimes fishing boats etc. Had 4 kids 2 more to visit then back to the block.
The shelter is a very basic affair that I knocked up a few years ago.
Can you picture a shelter 1.5 x 1.5 (because that is the roofing I had), one 90x45 attached to the shed wall one attached to the top of two steel posts (steel posts gave me the height) and left over pavers for the floor.
Sit the blower up on some blocks that keeps it up under the roof out of the weather, there is no flashing between the shed wall and roof.
I redirected the duct and a power lead out through the shed wall (seal with silicone).
All done ready to go. Works like a treat, plenty of ventilation keeps most of the spiders out and the wind blows most of everything else away.
The cordless remote is a relative new addition that I got of eBay. Plenty of 10amp ones but from memory my blower draws just on 10amp, took me a while to find one with a higher amperage.
Hope this mudmap helps.
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Cheers
John T

Great simple idea when we dont need to worry about neighbours. However having the landlord living on the block as well and kind of OCD I will have a taller lean to, so the outlet pipe comes out falls/drops into a 90* the straight down about 1 metre into the dusty, from there it can blow in the wind.
however 2 points.

1 will make up a lot of corro iron vents to allow as much dust etc out but stop rain getting in.
2 I am still modding my dusty ...bell mouth inlet, and a mix of BobL & Jonno from https://www.woodworkforums.com/f200/generic-2hp 17th Nov 2015, page 7 #105 hopefully this will work as well as the open air and then I can recycle the dust & bits into the compost bin. Dont worry, and mdf stuff in the bag will have little effect in the huge compost pile I have going.

I have chummed up with council and one tree mob and get everything dropped at our place, then I can buy an old Chamberlain tractor with forks and shovel and go big time compost.....as if I dont have enough to do, but living and trying to grow anything on limestone rock is difficult.