my workshop thread

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

not really my workshop thread but a few pictures of my workshop.
ive always wanted to have a workshop so i started hoarding any building materials i could a couple of years ago, anything that was cheap on ebay, anything that looked like a brick,rosemary tiles,telegraph poles,hardcore,wood, the place looked like a dumping ground for landfill
i thought :clapping:

my missus thought

so on 16/10/2011 i started, now where did i put those pics

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

where the yellow arrow is where i chose it to go

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

a quick teach to my mate jason and we'll continue

then he gave up, prefered the dumper truck

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

chucked a bit of concrete in the footings

rtbcomp · Jan 20, 2013

It would be better if the pictures could be loaded as attachments, here's how

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5016

This way if Photobucket throws a wobbly the images will still be available in the thread.

andy m · Jan 20, 2013

Ha ha this is the trade I am trying to get away from hopefully if the welding goes okay. :scared:

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

So the bricklaying starts, i did this without any help, every brick

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

god the mud was so bad, had to keep on laying, by this time id had enough of brick/blocklaying

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

forgot to add my niece was a geat assistant

and wanted a round window so a smart car wheel pumped up helped out

brightspark · Jan 20, 2013

DrNik said:
forgot to add my niece was a geat assistant
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and wanted a round window so a smart car wheel pumped up helped out
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verry inovative

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

i knew id find a use for the telegraph poles,de-nailed then trimmed square with a chainsaw, and then planed with an old electric planer

far cheaper than oak, treated so never to rot,cheap as chip £20 each, made all the 1st floor joists, the infilled with water damaged 5x2

Pete. · Jan 20, 2013

Sweet!

Like it - functional and good looking. Arches are very shallow I hope your piers can hold them, or are you going to prace across with something?

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

nearly got all joists are in, look at that view

just a million noggins to make and nail in

brightspark · Jan 20, 2013

Pete. said:
Sweet!

Like it - functional and good looking. Arches are very shallow I hope your piers can hold them, or are you going to prace across with something?

or are the pillars filled with concrete and rebar

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

nope all the pillars are hollow (couldnt afford the concrete) and because the end wall are double thickness and the weight of the roof on top nothing is going anywhere

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

bought a van full of 18mm plywood planks that were offcuts, from ebay again, good old ebay, painted with my own recipe creosote to keep the water out

and the got chopping up those telegraph poles again, to make roof trusses, didnt draw anthing, it all sort of made itself, jointed/bolted everything together

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

took a bit of work to get the trusses up, suprisingly heavy,

yours truly cracking on

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

inspection time, i did get the missus to help put it up, she was nearly in tears,thought it was going to fall and kill her

sudden spurt of work to get it done, this is roughly a year from the start day, not bad as i did it all on my own and i only fell off once, i built it all with no scaffold, just a wobbly tower off ebay

DrNik · Jan 20, 2013

ran out of tiles a few times, windows were mis-measures, giant velux were free, wrong size again

Pete. · Jan 20, 2013

Gotta admire your go-getting approach mate. Already it's looking a credit to any builder.

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