Thread: My daughter's Xmas present-aka-Making a shed into a workshop.

Originally Posted by jow104

Minus 2c at 09.00am yesterday and it didnt feel much warmer later in the day either, Peter, you would not have even started up here.

Looks very workable to me, I think the lady would die if she looked in my workshop.

John,

It was 38c when I knocked of, so quite a difference, but if it was minus 2c here I would have to work a lot faster than I do now to get warm.

Peter.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

Michelle is a member, has been for a while but hasn't posted until this thread. I think she joined to secretly spy on my postings.

Oh how well you know me, father!

Originally Posted by Sturdee

Now that her workshop is getting operational she might start to show some of her work.

hmmm...

Nah we'll see what happens

Michelle

Over the last few days I've been working on organizing the storage in the garage part.

Against the dividing wall between the workshop and garage we've put the 2 steel lockers. I've removed the doors and built Melamine chipboard shelving in the bigger one. See photo 1.

Along the side wall I've extended the door wall and insulated it and built a platform. On this platform will go the old and rather noisy, but working well, upright freezer, which up to now has been in the house. See photo 2.

I've also added 2 extra fluoro light fittings. Found the fittings a few weeks ago along the side of the road and to my surprise I found 6 working tubes this morning.

After building the shelves in the steel locker I started to get doubts about the span of the shelves, so I decided to make them of a double thickness (by building a set of shelves within the shelves) so I needed more chipboard.

So this afternoon on the way back from the library I detoured through some side streets and found just what I needed 13 lengths of melamine chipboard. See photo 3. Although the edges at one end are a bit swollen they will do fine for that part is cut of anyway.


Peter.

I must be getting towards the end as I've started to return the of cuts from the doors back to the hard rubbish collection.

I've used 35 doors in this projects and lots of cupboards and melamine chipboard that others didn't need anymore and saved heaps of money.


Peter.

It's incredible what you have achieved here Peter. Great WIP

Cut up the extra shelves and supports needed for the wider cupboards last night from the extra melamine I picked up yesterday.

So this morning I fixed them in position in both the wider ones as per photo 1 & 2. They now look and feel much stronger this way.

I also put shelves in the ugly brown pantry cupboard and I gave it an undercoat to get rid of the brown colour and made the base for the next wide shelving unit to go next to it. See photo 3.

This afternoon in my workshop I cut the shelves and supports for this unit, ready for fixing. This took all the melamine that I got so this weekend I'll have to hunt for some more as I still have one other pantry unit to go.

All the left over bits from the doors have now gone and I can move around without moving things all the time. The current shelving is becoming very helpful in this regard.


Peter.

Originally Posted by munruben

It's incredible what you have achieved here Peter. Great WIP

Thanks, I've enjoyed doing the WIP and I hope I have given ideas to others on how easy and cheap it can be to improve their workshop.


Peter.

Onya Sturdee, mammoth effort which will facilitate good things I'm sure

Well, since it is bucketing down over here, I thought I would go and have a look to see how the new improved shed was coping...

The main garage has water seepage onto 2/3rds of the floor (from both holes in the roof and walls) however the cupboards that dad's installed all looked dry! Success!!

And in the actual Doormitory it was nice and dry... well except for a small patch which has leaked from the roof through the gaps between four doors, but that was landing on a clear and open part of the floor.

I even had my first go at turning on the lathe! All worked smoothly, tools were in easy reach, and they were easy to find and considering it was kinda dark outside, it was bright and clear to see inside.

Thanks again Dad, especially considering before we started this project, if it had been raining like it did tonight, most of the equipment would be getting wet, not to mention sawdust and shavings are not best friends with water!

Michelle

Mind if I borrow your dad to water proof MY shed? I'll be working on the bench in floaties tomorrow

Good to see quality control did its job Michelle

Originally Posted by randmcnelly

Oh how well you know me, father!



hmmm...

Nah we'll see what happens

Michelle

Most fathers know there daughters well enough.

Now come on we want to see how well Peter has been teaching you..........you know all those bad habbits he has we will spot in an instant. or even just a dirty dusty shed

Peter great work impressive to say the least amazing. Oh that fellow who wanted to be adopted I have a list I'll send it over. Its alphabeltical

Originally Posted by randmcnelly

The main garage has water seepage onto 2/3rds of the floor (from both holes in the roof and walls) however the cupboards that dad's installed all looked dry! Success!!

Michelle

We knew that when it rained heavily the floor would be covered with water, so I planned for the worst by raising the floor of the doormitory, even though we lost some 100 mm in ceiling height.

Also all the non steel shelving is on little treated pine platforms. Good to see them working.

Must find that small spot in the roofing sheets and patch it.

Peter.

Originally Posted by wheelinround

or even just a dirty dusty shed

Actually my own workshop is rather messy at the moment, lots of MDF and melamine of cuts from making the shelves and tool racks. Need to spend a day or two just to clean up when this job is finished.

Hard to get around when I've a pile of sheets cut for shelving.

Peter.

With the rain we've been having, I tidyed up my workshop and we took across the last wardrobe cupboard that I collected. Brought home the last lot of surplus MDF from her garage and cut them to size for the last lot of shelving.


I expect that next week I will finish the shelving and making the connecting door to the Doormitory. Maybe even get to paint the tool racks.


Peter.