andychud
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Just wanted to share with you a of photo of my lovely new shed/garage/workshop/storeroom that I'm in the process of constructing... not as quickly as the missus would like though!
It's built from 50x50 steel box and stands a shade under 4m (no planning permission required). It's 8m long by 4m wide and pretty much fills the far end of my my extremely long but narrow back garden. It was originally going to be clad in lovely featheredge timber (I started on the back already) but the local council Building control dept. have put a stop to that (some nonsense about fire spread to neighbours properties even though there's nothing there!). Now I'll have to do it in ugly corrugated steel (a la industrial estate). Still, if that's what the council want, that's what the council will get. I sure as hell know it's not what the neighbours or I want.
It'll be essentially 2 levels (although as far as the council is concerned, one level with loft storage). I'm going to put a couple of roof windows in the front ridge to let some light in upstairs... er... I mean in the loft. Once it's complete my wife won't be able to keep me out of there.
I did a plan for each of the sides on CAD (first time I used it), then cut and labelled all my lengths. With the help of next door neighbour and his dad (ta very much, Steve!) we fabricated each side on the floor. Then we lifted them up and welded them together. This was the first time I'd done any MIG and the results started off crap and got steadily better. I made sure that the first welds that I did were not going to be under too much stress. The welder we used belonged to my neighbour. It's far from finished. I t still need to put in a few more diagonal braces and build a staircase. I plan to make these out of the 50x50 left-overs and use my own new (to me) MIG. It's a big old bruiser that I picked up on eBay for a song - it wasn't working but I managed to get it going (an electronic fault on the control board).
Anyhow, if anybody wants a shed-load (pardon the pun) of featheredge timber cladding, let me know. I'd be happy to make a deal.
It's built from 50x50 steel box and stands a shade under 4m (no planning permission required). It's 8m long by 4m wide and pretty much fills the far end of my my extremely long but narrow back garden. It was originally going to be clad in lovely featheredge timber (I started on the back already) but the local council Building control dept. have put a stop to that (some nonsense about fire spread to neighbours properties even though there's nothing there!). Now I'll have to do it in ugly corrugated steel (a la industrial estate). Still, if that's what the council want, that's what the council will get. I sure as hell know it's not what the neighbours or I want.
It'll be essentially 2 levels (although as far as the council is concerned, one level with loft storage). I'm going to put a couple of roof windows in the front ridge to let some light in upstairs... er... I mean in the loft. Once it's complete my wife won't be able to keep me out of there.
I did a plan for each of the sides on CAD (first time I used it), then cut and labelled all my lengths. With the help of next door neighbour and his dad (ta very much, Steve!) we fabricated each side on the floor. Then we lifted them up and welded them together. This was the first time I'd done any MIG and the results started off crap and got steadily better. I made sure that the first welds that I did were not going to be under too much stress. The welder we used belonged to my neighbour. It's far from finished. I t still need to put in a few more diagonal braces and build a staircase. I plan to make these out of the 50x50 left-overs and use my own new (to me) MIG. It's a big old bruiser that I picked up on eBay for a song - it wasn't working but I managed to get it going (an electronic fault on the control board).
Anyhow, if anybody wants a shed-load (pardon the pun) of featheredge timber cladding, let me know. I'd be happy to make a deal.