Thread: I can't work in here

If it was me I will be storing them inside the house.

Amazing how much space you can make for something inside the house,,,, no need for an ironing board,,, all my labels are wash a wear. Well thats the way I treat them.

The last of the rafters went up today & all the battens are in and secured. We picked up the sheets of blueboard today ready for fixing on Monday. The roofing & guttering should be ready for pickup sometime on Tuesday.

Originally Posted by rusel

Mick, What insulation are you looking at Russell

We'll put sarking under the Colorbond but that's about it Russell. I need the 'tween rafter space for the fluoro lights. The stud height runs from 2360 down to 2100mm on the low side so a ceiling would just make it too low for me.

Being on the Eastern side it can get a bit warm on mid-summer mornings but soon cools off in the early afternoon shade. At this stage I'll leave the studs & noggins exposed 'cos they provide a lot of good storage space for clamps, chisels etc.

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

How are you storing your tools while the work happens?

SWMBO's garage is chock-a-block. No static so far but the cost of the square up is not known at this time.

Originally Posted by Christos

If it was me I will be storing them inside the house.

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Thanks for your interest guys.

Mick

I love the replies.

Originally Posted by wun4us

Getting there, slowly but surely and a fine job!! How high is it from the floor to the ceiling? perhaps its a visual thing, but compared to the far end door it looks a little lower than usual? Cheers

Thanks Barry. That little door at the far end is only 1200 high & opens into a concrete floored crawl space. I have it earmarked for either timber racks although the idea of a roll out set of storage shelves has occurred to me.

Mick

Originally Posted by Glider

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SWMBO's garage is chock-a-block. No static so far but the cost of the square up is not known at this time.

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Hmm - I can see this hurting in more ways then one and at the most inopportune moments - good luck

Originally Posted by Glider

Thanks Barry. That little door at the far end is only 1200 high & opens into a concrete floored crawl space. I have it earmarked for either timber racks although the idea of a roll out set of storage shelves has occurred to me.

Mick

Given that its a crawl space, maybe you could even widen the doorway and have a nice widw set of roller racks?

Barry

Those foundation stones are about 450 thick. I think I'll leave them where the Edwardians put them back in 1904. However I have thought about chipping a 100mm hole in the side wall so I can locate the dusty into a sub-floor area with enough height to accomodate it. The guy in the Shawshank Redemption only took about 20 years to do a similar job.

Mick

Originally Posted by Glider

Those foundation stones are about 450 thick. I think I'll leave them where the Edwardians put them back in 1904. However I have thought about chipping a 100mm hole in the side wall so I can locate the dusty into a sub-floor area with enough height to accomodate it. The guy in the Shawshank Redemption only took about 20 years to do a similar job.

Mick

Sounds like a job for the $60 Ozito jack hammer/drlll

I suppose I had better visit the big green shed and have a look. It has to be better than a cold chisel & brickies hammer.

I am intrigued by the description, Bob. Is it a jackhammer or a type of impact drill?

Mick

or hire one from Kennards, maybe

Originally Posted by Glider

I suppose I had better visit the big green shed and have a look. It has to be better than a cold chisel & brickies hammer.

I am intrigued by the description, Bob. Is it a jackhammer or a type of impact drill?

Mick

Methinks a small charge of C4 properly placed and shielded would do the job nicely...even break the stone down to manageable sizes for ease of removable...collateral damage would be minor...hole would be suitable enlarged to your strict requirement then!!!

Originally Posted by Glider

I suppose I had better visit the big green shed and have a look. It has to be better than a cold chisel & brickies hammer.

I am intrigued by the description, Bob. Is it a jackhammer or a type of impact drill?

It's both (and also a non-impact drill).

About 6 years ago I had to demolish a set of red concrete landing (~ 2 x 2 m x 300 mm). Can't be too hard I thought and brought out the trusty sledge hammer but it just bounced off the stuff. I then rang around a couple of hire places and they all wanted ~$50/day to hire a small jack hammer. On my way out to the hire place I stopped off at the local bunnings to buy something else and that's where I saw the Ozito Jackhammer/impact drill combo. It was $59 at the time. I thought even it only lasts for this job thin it's paid for itself.

6 years later it is still going strong. As well as the old step and landing removal I have used it to build a 72 block limestone wall out the front and the 64 limestone block retaining wall for the shed. A few years back I bought a set of 3 cheap chinese 600 mm long impact drill bits (also on special for $29) and have used it to drill up to 500 mm long holes through double brick, and also limestone. I have also used it to build a wooden fence - it drives long spade bits really nicely thru thick timber.

It's next job will be to help me demolish the old shed (5.3 x 3.5 m) floor.

I see there is new model of the drill available

$9.84 a year - bargain

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

$9.84 a year - bargain

~3c a day.

Oh yeah for got to say, its also been loaned out to countless relatives and friends, some of whom I would not normally loan out anything delicate or valuable.