Thread: WIP - The Small Shed

Looking good Greenie!

Just how big exactly is the shed gonna be?

I hate it when someone calls theirs small, but it's bigger than mine!

Cheers, looking good so far!

Originally Posted by greenie512

PS: Neil - how about a sheds section??

The names not quite perfect but close enough

Home Renovation - THE GARDEN SHED

Major, sir - Shed is going to be a Titon 3 x 3 x 2m high (walls) "tool shed" with trussed roof to match existing. It's main (or mine) intention is to house the compressor and dusty to remove noise and "fine dust" out of main shed but also to relocate all that "stuff" that hardly gets used but you need to have. Subject to how much I stuff in there it might act as a spray booth but I recon' they'll be little room after the fit out??

Originally Posted by greenie512

Major, sir - Shed is going to be a Titon 3 x 3 x 2m high (walls) "tool shed" with trussed roof to match existing. It's main (or mine) intention is to house the compressor and dusty to remove noise and "fine dust" out of main shed but also to relocate all that "stuff" that hardly gets used but you need to have. Subject to how much I stuff in there it might act as a spray booth but I recon' they'll be little room after the fit out??

Sounds Good, actually I'm dead jealous of all that space you'll have. Just out of interest why have you gone for a stand alone and not just enlarged your existing shed?

Originally Posted by BobL

Just out of interest why have you gone for a stand alone and not just enlarged your existing shed?

Bob - Derrrrrrr never thought of that :mad::mad:. But existing shed is cut into a slope, trees one side plus embackment, 1.5+ m embankment at back, ramped driveway at front. Side I am working on is about the only spot I could expand out from but that would involve major excavations as well plus some pretty big tree stumps to remove.

I had thought of tacking a very basic lean-to on some where but couldn't resist the extra space.

Also this will block view from road so give me a bit more privacy.

and no neighbours ...
heaven !

What shed? You mean the little darkroom, I work in with all the clothes hanging up.



HJ0 Why am i always buying the wrong lotto tickets:mad:

Concrete comes 9:00 am tomorrow so thought I better shutter up for it. Just thave to go and buy some hi-hats to raise the reiforcement.

Well I really wasn’t expecting yesterday to be any different than the last 3 weeks i.e. “what could go wrong – would go wrong” Here’s the list so far <o></o>

• Water mains blows hole in driveway
• PC crashes and burns (almost) in the middle of a project of a client
• Buy notebook to cover while above is repaired
• Vehicle springs multiple fuel leaks at multiple times
• Need to hire car to cover above
• “New” notebook motherboard – gives up the ghost
• Client’s new project on notebook?
• Need notebook for client’s presentation Thursday
• Will I get notebook back by Wednesday (pigs'll fly)
• Still waiting for driveway to be repaired

<o></o>Oh – and loads of other sh*t to minor to mention. So back to the plot, concrete booked for 9:00 am yesterday. Phone call 7:00 am concrete plant wanting to deliver ASP, due to lots of cancellations as (yes) it was raining. Offsider wasn’t due until 8:00 am so load came 8:30 am.
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Alls good at moment, rain stopped cool and overcast – great weather for laying concrete. Truck arrived and it started p*ssing it down but easy job with such a small slab, rain eased off and we had it finished like a babies bum by 10:00 am. Ran the float over at 11:00 am lookin good – final float 12:30 pm b*gger – 30 minutes too late – messed surface up ever so slightly. Rain came down again – b*gger – cover slab with poly sheeting. You could feel the sheeting stick/drag on tacky surface – b*gger.
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This morning –remove sheeting from slab and yes – surface marked/pocketed where sheeting had caught – b**** (you know by now). It actually isn’t too bad and wouldn’t be a major job to float with some self leveling screed but I’ll wait and get shed up first before worrying about that minor flaw.
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A few bags of premixed concrete are needed to finish surrounding plinth.
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Looking good so far. Why didn't you go for a bigger shed and then make the original the smaller one for storage ?

I convinced my wife one shed was all i would need (25ft x 40ft x 10ft)
I now have her convinced i need a 20 x 20 up the back of the block for storage of stuff i don't want in the main shed.

Originally Posted by greenie512

..... It's main (or mine) intention is to house the compressor and dusty to remove noise and "fine dust" out of main shed ...... Subject to how much I stuff in there it might act as a spray booth but I recon' they'll be little room after the fit out??

Im not sure i would be taking all the fine dust out of the workshop and into the spray booth? you wouldnt be able to use the dusty till the paint is dry. also i know its only a remote chance but the risk of the dusty or compressor motor igniting fumes in the spraybooth?

Swift - kept to a small shed to avoid planning permission and to be honest anything larger would be an overkill.

Doug - spray booth idea was a "thow-away" comment. Unlikely I would do this but if I did I would have to clean out small shed of all dust and DE before starting job. Main idea remains - leave compressor in small shed - isolate noise and spray in larger shed but still making sure shed No 2 is dust free-sh.

Late yesterday afternoon I spent an hour drilling and chemsetting anchors for two sides. This morning I did the other two sides and screwed up the wall frames, trusses and purlins. Would like to start the sheeting but other jobs call – hopefully I’ll start this next weekend.