Thread: My Shed

Evening everyone

I'm just sitting here listening to the rain pouring down and hoping that it doesn't prevent the cut for the shed going ahead tomorrow. The concreter called me today to say he can prepare the site tomorrow so I'm really hoping it can happen. I know that bobcats and rain don't mix - they just leave an awful mess.

I must say I am very impressed with the delivery driver from Bluescope. As I said in a previous post he called me when he arrived onsite, but I had no warning of the delivery so I couldn't be there to guide him. I have had problems with drivers before who just can't be bothered and just dump the delivery wherever. The worst was Stratco a few years ago. I had 20 2400 x 2100 fence panel kits delivered, while I was at my work Christmas function. He shows up, knocks on the door and tells my wife he can't bring the truck up the driveway, and proceeds to drop the whole delivery on the nature strip - 70 meters from the house. I've had large tippers with dog trailers back up my drive with no problem. You can drive a large tray straight in and turn around. This bloke couldn't even get a medium tray in. I got home at about 11pm, having put away a fair few beers, and had to cut the packs open and walk the entire delivery up to the house. Apparently this was very entertaining to watch.

This bloke yesterday, listened to me on the phone, understood that I needed good access for machinery to get the slab down, drove his truck up onto the grass and placed the packs in the perfect spot where they are not in the way but in easy reach for the installers. I'm very impressed!

Nice to know that there are still people who give a crap and take pride in their work.

Now go away rain!!!!

Danny

I think you should ring Bluescope and make management aware of the effort the driver went to to do the job as you wanted, for Bluescope it means they have a good employee and you are more likely to go to Bluescope for another shed, when the new one isn't big enough


Pete

Well the slab is down! I only expected the cut today but they decided to finish the job.


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The day wasn't without it's dramas though. I have an uncanny ability to break pipes when digging. I have now undertaken 3 excavations on that side of my front yard. We did a cut for car parking, we dug a big hole to bury a 1 tonne block of concrete and we did this cut today. Believe it or not we have hit and broken the gas main on all of these occasions. Today it was fine for the cut but as soon as the bobcat dug the first hole I heard the familiar hissing noise of gas. Aaahhhhh!!! The problem is that the gas line takes somewhat of a curved path from the house and is no deeper than 300mm. If I ever find the plumber who first ran this I'll punch him in the mouth (figuratively speaking of course). I'm sure that regulations require gas to be down at least 450mm. I just can't believe that in my quite large front yard I manage to find that stupid 10mm yellow pipe every time. With the best hindsight I should have paid a bit more for the guys to dig the corner foundation holes by hand.

But it gets worse. I called the gas company who sent their bloke out to fix it. He proceeds to advise me that I am not allowed to build a structure over a gas line which now runs just under the front of the slab. He then tells me I am going to have to re-route the gas line around the shed, involving about an 11 meter long trench. I convinced him to repair the broken pipe so I can pour the slab. He puts in an invoice for the repair and another one for the modification which he tells me must be completed within the next couple of weeks. Maybe it's just me but I would have thought that the gas line would be safer buried under a big slab of concrete.

The fall on the block was greater than it seemed also so I have a bigger retaining wall to build and the front of the shed is higher than I would have liked. Will need to get a bobcat out after the shed is up to re-sculpture the area in front of the shed to get it looking good.


Today was one of those "live and learn" days

Danny

At last!! Movement on the station...........now, its all stops out. Easy does it though, too easy to make small mistakes with all the bits of 'meccano'; just slows down the erecton a bit here and there. Won't know yourself when its up and functional...peace and quiet too

Not so good to hear of a mishap. Good to see the slab down.

leave the slab to cure for a couple of weeks , and give it a hose down regularly , and it will harden properly.(I'm sure you knew this).

While it's curing have the gas line moved

I had a problem when I was selling my last house, we had it built by a local builder, but the council never issued a certificate of completion, as the plumber had not called them for the plumbing inspection.only lived there for 11 years!!!

Looks like it's a good sized shed??,

I'll bet you are looking forward to having the space for all those projects, that you have been putting off for years.

Take your time setting up the inside .

Jeff

Hi Jeff

Yeah I know about watering the slab, but I have never really known how often or for how long. What do you reckon?

I am actually not going to erect the shed myself, electing instead to part with some hard earned and watch someone else do it. I have done everything on my house myself for many years and the good wife managed to convince me to just pay someone. I must say I am looking forward to the thought of just coming home from work one day to find it done.

I will take my pride in doing up the inside myself, but this will take time (more through financial limitiations than desire).

Danny

Danny, when I had my slab done, I watered it every couple of days as it was not punishingly hot. I also paid an experienced shed builder to erect, Builder and offsider, 2 days to lockup, were as I would still be going, some 2 years on

That left me the interior, which is still not 100% complete, but when is the shed 100% done

I lined the floor with Concrete plastic, then aircell insulation, then 18mm Orange tongue particle board flooring. The walls are lined with 16mm white melamine boards. Bright and clean. The walls and roof also have the Aircell insulation, with the northern and western walls also having R2.5 batts stuffed between the aircell and lining. The difference between the inside and outside temps can be as much as 10° cooler in summer and the 10° warmer in winter. If it is a hot and humid day, you do have to induce airflow, turn on the fans and open the windows.

Enjoy your shed

Thats an awesome fit out pat. I love the idea of using aircell under the timber. I have pondered putting a timber floor over the slab to reduce fatigue and provide a more suitable area for barefoot karate training (of which a third of the shed will be dedicated). This might be a longer term goal though.

I have coughed up for aircell for the roof and will address the wall lining at some stage. Thanks for the photos.


Thought I should have a quiet beer in the shed today, you know, just to get into practice.

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Forgot to mention that I decided to put plastic under the slab after reading a few posts on this forum about rising damp in sheds. May not need it but at $120 I figured it's cheap insurance knowing it simply can't be done later.

Danny, a beer in your own shed is just one of life's little pleasures!

I perfer tea.

For me it's a time of day thing. 6pm last night, well that there was beer time. I do love a cup of tea while I'm working though so I have started drinking tea without milk in preparation for shed time. I don't plan on having a fridge in there anytime soon, and I don't want to come inside every time I want a cup of tea. So I figure if I can go from 2 sugars to none and get used to it I can drop the milk.

Ah sheds, they do require meticulous planning don't they.

Danny

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Ah sheds, they do require meticulous planning don't they.

Danny

Yep and then they end up looking a bit like a pig sty