Thread: Another shed saga begins

That is a really neat set up!!!

It all takes time but it is worth doing it once and doing it well!

Then I can get the doors on and floor painted (2-pack epoxy with urethane sealer).

What paint do you intend to use. Seems to be a few around although it is hard to work out the better. I would like to paint my shed floor to make it easier to keep clean (take that as sweep up with a broom).

Thanks Nifty.

Originally Posted by Nifty Nev

What paint do you intend to use. Seems to be a few around although it is hard to work out the better. I would like to paint my shed floor to make it easier to keep clean (take that as sweep up with a broom).

Thanks Nifty.

Went with 'neutral gray' from 'all purpose coatings' APCEPO100PK-60 Plain Coat Epoxy Flooring Kit 60m2 and their flexithane top coat. Later decided to do a flake layer as well - moonlight
Will do an acid etch after giving the slab a good clean then follow the application directions.

Another voyage of discovery for me

Thanks for reply - sure not cheap.

Originally Posted by Moo73

Will do an acid etch after giving the slab a good clean then follow the application directions.

Go careful acid etching inside a steel framed shed - it can eat away the galv coating and cause corrosion issues. I decided to grind the floor of my shed for that reason, though I'll happily acid etch the slab of my double brick garage.

Originally Posted by Moph

Go careful acid etching inside a steel framed shed - it can eat away the galv coating and cause corrosion issues. I decided to grind the floor of my shed for that reason, though I'll happily acid etch the slab of my double brick garage.

Yes, I've been flip-flopping quite a bit on which way to go. May yet do the grind...

Looking like a serious setup

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

Looks good and well thought through.

One thing I wished I had done from the start was installing more 19A GPOs suspended from the middle of the shed.
Initially I had 3 doubles but have since install 2 more plus a 15A. This has eliminated cords running from walls across the floor to things in the middle of the shed.

Originally Posted by Moph

Go careful acid etching inside a steel framed shed - it can eat away the galv coating and cause corrosion issues. I decided to grind the floor of my shed for that reason, though I'll happily acid etch the slab of my double brick garage.

My mum has all sorts of problems at her place with copper plumbing dissolving in the soil immediately outside her kitchen and nothing would grow in that area so she covered it with pot plants. Over a 10 year period we replaced the copper pipes twice. The second time mum was away a it was the gas powered hot water pipe which ran for days and racked up hundreds of $$ worth of gas charges, and flooded the back patio. When we finally tested the pH of the soil it was less than 4 and parts were nearly 3! The plumber reckoned this was due to excessive acid used to wash the bricks at the time of building. We ended up replacing a couple of cubic meters of soil along the wall and even then the plumber reckoned that might not be enough.

So, this happened...
Floor, finished - the flake is probably a bit sparse in areas while heavy in others (newbie mistake), but overall I think it came up pretty well.
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I did end up doing an acid etch surface prep, hoping the bicarb neutraliser I poured on as part of the rinsing helped lower the pH of the acid being flushed out.

Doors, in place - I had intended installing the doors myself - but bailed when I started to figure out how I was going to get them in place and get them all hung correctly (I hate hanging doors!!); at 2720h x 815w each panel (x4), I figured I needed someone who knew what they were doing. So, a call to a builder acquaintance got things underway
Ta-da...
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Machines, moved in - three trailers, two vehicles, one day, a 1500kg max. load gantry and two girls. Now that was easy, wasn't it?!
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Now - just have to sort locks and bolts for the doors, amongst other things

More pics to come...

Hi Moo',
It's looking fantastic, well done!
You have some nice gear ..... and I bet you can't wait to use it,
I think you also need to teach us all how do time lapse.... and how to upload it!
fletty

Geez, the engine gantry makes moving stuff around look like child's play. Fletty remember the spindle moulder delivery

Originally Posted by Pat

Geez, the engine gantry makes moving stuff around look like child's play. Fletty remember the spindle moulder delivery

I think that our method of tieing the spindle moulder, while still on the trailer, to the fence and driving off rapidly in the opposite direction would have scratched Leanne's beautiful finished floor ?

Don't worry - that's how I got the sawstop off at mums to store while the shed was being finished. Pre-gantry.
But you're right, no epoxy on that floor (though not sure how long that will last, she visited today and seems to think mine looks ok)