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    Soundproofing, or sound amelioration can be a tricky business.

    We once looked ata property where the owner had a really great shed set up
    as he was a kitchen supplier. He ha three sides of the shed surrounded by a
    sound deadening pine fence. Seemed to work OK.

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    Hi guys,

    I also recently just completed an extension to my shed. The original posts were correct regarding slab thickness. I simply built timber frames which make it easier and cheaper. Important thing to remember though is the use of tie down bolts to hold frame to slab.

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    You mentioned painting the concrete floor.

    Might this be of interest to you possibly?

    http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/maddi...trs/1035527727





    Probably 4 or 5 times as much as you need..... maybe a group buy?...

    Just a suggestion - if not maybe the details of what it is etc will be handy for sourcing some locally... albeit doesn't look cheap.

    Cheers

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    If we get some rain this week I'll plonk myself down in front of the computer and try and work out which paint to get.

    My next step is finishing the fly braces but I've run out of tek screws. They supply a box that normally holds 500 screws, took out 14 and gave me 486. I suppose thats how many I was suppose to use. I thought I'd followed the instructions but then the instructions are not crystal clear. On some of the work the instructions call for #7 Tek screws while the engineering calls for a different Tek screw for the same job. Since the Tek screws specified in the engineering aren't supplied I used the Teks specified in the "one size fits all" instructions. Not a big deal to get some more.

    I then have to put up the raking angles. These have been lying on the ground for a couple of months and they mustn't have been lying flat as they have a twist in them. I'm expecting they'll come good once I've attached them.

    Then its on to the sheeting which should happen this week end.

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    I've been doing a bit of work on the shed and it is taking a bit longer than I thought it would. All in all I'm pretty happy with the job I'm doing. I haven't made too many blues and nothing major. Working on sunny days really knocks you about, the glare off the concrete made things a touch unpleasant. The frame is really solid now.

    I am going to put a fold out clothes line on the end of the shed. I bolted a piece of timber to the frame so I have a solid base for the clothes line to bolt to.
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    Screwing the Trimdek sheets to the sides wasn't too hard once we got going. Everything stayed pretty well square. By the time we finished it was taking 2 of us about 10 minutes to put up one sheet.

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    When we got to the gable ends the fun and games began. I am having a window in the centre of the gable end and a door about a metre in from the side. I wanted the window dead centre so there was a lot scribbling on paper and number crunching to work out where the ribs of the cladding would fall. I haven't put the window in yet but it looks like I got I got it right. I wanted the top of the window to line up with the top of the door but that isn't going to happen. Due to the height of the battens the window sits a bit higher than I wanted. However I can live with that since I am going to have a bench under the window and I figure having a bigger space between the bench and the glass will mean less broken glass.


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    Putting up the gable sheets is taking a lot longer than putting up the side sheets. Each sheet has to be placed in position, marked and cut before fitting. The window and door add their own twist and a lot of the slow progress is due to me trying to make head and tail of the instructions.

    Cutting the Trimdek is a right royal PITA. It is hard going cutting across the ribs. I bought a nibble that you put on the end of your drill. I couldn't make it work the way the bloke selling it did so I gave up on that. (Thats $250 I could have spent on something else. ) Once I shelved the nibble I got some piano wire and fashioned a jig. I had mixed results. The first test cut worked well but when I got to the real deal the piano wire broke and that jig is now sitting next to the nibbler. It may have worked if I persevered and used thicker piano wire.

    I'm now using tin snips. Wiss left and right handers. Following a tip on another thread I cut the Colorbond to within 10mm of the final edge using both the left and right snips. Once that is done I go back and cut again to my finished line using the left and right snips. The results are good but it is a time consuming activity.

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    Tin snips!! I hate them no matter what the brand or the advertising skite!!

    You will be glad to get finished - it's been a while.

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    Looking good Arch.

    If you can find them, powered tin snips is the way to go with cutting Trimdeck. They take a bit of getting used to and you have to force then hard over the ridges in the sheeting. The trick is to learn when to lay them over. Not that different to regular tin snips.

    Anyway I guess you will have stronger hands by the time you finish

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Looking good Arch.

    If you can find them, powered tin snips is the way to go with cutting Trimdeck. They take a bit of getting used to and you have to force then hard over the ridges in the sheeting. The trick is to learn when to lay them over. Not that different to regular tin snips.

    Anyway I guess you will have stronger hands by the time you finish
    I figure by the time I'm finished I'll know how to build a good shed. I hate how you get all this knowledge and experience after you're finished and not before you start.

    I'm getting quite good with the regular snips now but I wouldn't want to be using them every day.

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    if it helps with cladding the gable ends, once you have the correct angle(roof pitch) established you can mark the proceeding sheet off the first sheet on the ground by lapping the 2 sheets as you would on the wall keeping the bottom of the sheets flush and projecting the angle to the next sheet or just mark the long or short points and use an offcut with the angle cut to mark the angle of the next sheet. sorry hard to explain but works really well, just dont get too far ahead of yourself just do one or two sheets at a time and fix in position to make sure everthing is working correctly and adjust as necessary on the next sheet.

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    In 2002 we had a three bay shed built in the backyard by two blokes who did nothing else but build them. When they got to one end they continued putting the rectangular sheets up as normal. Then out came a circular saw with appropriate cutter and they cut it up and over. The noise was unbelievable. When they got to the other end and were not far off starting to cut we went for a drive. These guys did an absolutely brilliant job of the shed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shedbound View Post
    if it helps with cladding the gable ends, once you have the correct angle(roof pitch) established you can mark the proceeding sheet off the first sheet on the ground by lapping the 2 sheets as you would on the wall keeping the bottom of the sheets flush and projecting the angle to the next sheet or just mark the long or short points and use an offcut with the angle cut to mark the angle of the next sheet. sorry hard to explain but works really well, just dont get too far ahead of yourself just do one or two sheets at a time and fix in position to make sure everthing is working correctly and adjust as necessary on the next sheet.
    Good idea,

    I tried doing it today and it saved a lot of going up and down the ladder. Worked well.

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    I put half the front up today. Went well. They supplied 3 short pieces of Colorbond which I assumed were for over the roller door however they are 2 or 3 inches short. I'll take a look at the remaining sheets tomorrow and see if I'm going to have enough.

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    Arch, this is why I paid a builder to erect my shed. I'd still be doing the shed, 4 years later, instead of playing in it.
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    Hi Arch, glad it helped bugger about the short sheets when they supplied my shed I had about 1 & 3/4 sheets left over they cut it tight with quantities even down to the screws. can you raise the lintle over the roller door a bit. or is it too late?

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    sorry just looked at your pics a bit closer looks a little late.

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