oldravendale
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I have two......!
Brian
Brian
Spike's folding table - Catching a Toad
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Spike
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Progress since new year was at first slow, up until today a total of 4 pieces of cladding had been installed. With the pieces round the door in place bar the strip wood which is too thin, you can just see the foil tab between the strip wood and the cladding. This needs replacing with a new piece, I have moved on to working on the roof.
There was debate in the house around which way the planks should go, my first thought is not what we ended up doing. Though have to admit the end result does look better.
Just about to order the next lot of cladding to do the side wall of the shed. Seems to be almost an order a week of cladding.
Peter
There was debate in the house around which way the planks should go, my first thought is not what we ended up doing. Though have to admit the end result does look better.
Just about to order the next lot of cladding to do the side wall of the shed. Seems to be almost an order a week of cladding.
Peter
Dog Star
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Wickes best 14mm (finished size) T&G interior pine cladding... the shed is just eating the stuff. I think that, so far, we have used 15 packs of 4 pieces, 2.4M per piece, visible part is 88mm. Rough calculation is that we need another 20 packs to complete so about 120 lengths in total. The cost of cladding is frightening.... but then everything to do with fitting out of the shed has been much more than we expected.
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Tim Humphreys ex Mudhen
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Our local builders merchant is Ridgeons and I find they will always do a deal on larger quantities of materials. If you speak to a local builder you will find the price they pay is very different to the retail price. If you've already got a deal from Wickes, sorry for trying to teach you to suck eggs.
Happy New Year,
Tim
Happy New Year,
Tim
Eastsidepilot
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Eastsidepilot
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9mm ply may probably of been cheaper ?...but with the tongue & groove you could have tosh nailed it through the tongue, saves expensive screws
which is the normal way of fixing.Col.
JimG
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I've still got one plus a Yankee pump
Here's another.
, Fifty-five years old and still going strong. The screw holding the ratchet control cover on disappeared years ago to be replaced by gaffer tape. Jim.
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Dog Star
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Sorry to say that the screwdriver in Peter's picture was made by Guy's Handtools, an UK company.
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Eastsidepilot
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Here's another.
Jim.
A few years back spare parts could be obtained from Stanley in the U.S. don't know if this is still the case.
Col.
Dog Star
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Colin (@eastsidepilot), ply from the far east might have been cheaper... terrible stuff to work with though. Alsford timber offers 6mm Birch ply at £38 inc vat and as I think that we would need 14 sheets to do the roof, doors and walls (too much waste per sheet unless one is building baseboards) then the cost for ply is about £532. Estimate for the T&G cladding (with less waste and what there is looks like kits for birdtables) is £502.
The interior cladding looks better than ply.
Benefits with using T&G are that:-
* (a) we can work the material with hand tools - no need for cuts of up to 8' long;
* (b) Peter can cut and install on his own, think about the weight when doing a roof panel;
* (c) we need only have enough material to hand for 7 days of work - learnt a lesson with the Celotex, 15 sheets rather got in the way when fitting insulation into the wall spaces ;
* (d) Wickes delivers FOC for an order of £100 and that is about the price of the material which we want on hand per week;
* (e) £100 per week rather than £500 up front makes life easier on the piggy bank.
Hidden nailing is a good approach bar one thing - whatever we have done to date is with the knowledge that the New Top Shed shall have to be moved to a new home hence the shed shall have to be dismantled without too much damage to the structure both outside amd inside.
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paulc
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Cheers Paul
Dont be sorry Dog , i haven't heard of that brand having spent most of my working life in Australia but thanks for the information , never too old to learn .
Cheers Paul
Spike
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A planned holiday which had to be postponed resulted in an opportunity to progress the shed. The cladding is nearly complete with the window surrounds and the apex to go. There is a delivery of cladding coming on Monday so this weekend resulted in starting the workbench.
Below are the pictures of the workbench and it’s progress, it’s missing the backing plywood and a worktop. They will be ordered in the coming weeks. There will be a second workbench next to this one for my Dad to use.
The timber screwed to the outside of the legs is to protect the wall of the shed from the screws holding the brackets.
The middle legs are offset from centre partly to fit an Ikea unit that will be going on the left hand end and to give space for the hooligan (My Golden Retriever) to sit under the bench and keep my feet warm, or more likely store his toys.
Regards
Peter
Below are the pictures of the workbench and it’s progress, it’s missing the backing plywood and a worktop. They will be ordered in the coming weeks. There will be a second workbench next to this one for my Dad to use.
The timber screwed to the outside of the legs is to protect the wall of the shed from the screws holding the brackets.
The middle legs are offset from centre partly to fit an Ikea unit that will be going on the left hand end and to give space for the hooligan (My Golden Retriever) to sit under the bench and keep my feet warm, or more likely store his toys.
Regards
Peter
mickoo
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I'm glad that's the wall without windows, if not you've made a terrible blunder
I do actually have a side window on the house that has plasterboard over the inside, part of the kitchen extension into an old disused downstairs toilet, it was easier to just board it over inside and mount units across, than to remove the window and brick it all up, it does throw insurance inspectors though
The shed is all looking very good and coming along nicely
Dog Star
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Not this week.
Paul, (@paulc), if you are new to this thread then you may have missed the post which records that the timber for the legs of the workbench was re-purposed courtesy of Chris Brown (@ChrisBr)... the wood was previously the posts of Chris's garden fence. The design and construction of the "ladder" to join the legs and to support the workbench top is an exercise in simplicity of working with wood... all cuts are made using a chop-saw so as to achieve right angles and all "joints" are made with ironmongery so as to avoid cutting half-lap or tenon / mortice joints. What you see is our approach to ensuring success in construction.
regards, Graham
Rob Pulham
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Nice!
