Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

Bit of a haul from my dad's garage and my mates storage/workshop. Almost nabbed some rebar but he gave me metal gate pieces instead. Nice massive grinder which I'll try not to wear out the disc (we discussed it). Bit of (I think) old oak table which was going to the tip from dad's garden so it was rescued as were the pressure treated 38mm lengths (I had to dismantle my brothers old tuck shop seating to get at it).

But, other than descewing the smaller timbers and getting all the patio bricks (to be used for small walling purposes, but still in thinking) and everything else round the back or front of my house, food poisoning stops play!
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Some is Shafiq but there are also some very decent pallets around as well including hardwood. If you find a company who wants rid you might have to take the bad with the good but you could always chop those up into firewood stick and sell them on.

I was branch manager of a company which included semi finished plastics and one of the product range came from Switzerland in sheets of 3000 x 1500. The pallets were solid, no gaps and double sided and the material was packed with a "scrap top and bottom plastic of the same type. We sold a lot and the pallets as well as packing sheets were very definitely recycled. Not all by myself I'd add as some of my staff had uses as well.

It will take a while to wear out the diamond tipped stone saw blade. Nice haul.

duke said:

It will take a while to wear out the diamond tipped stone saw blade. Nice haul.

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Thanks Duke. He's one (of only 2) that I lend out my tools to (without adding siblings as then it just get awkward saying no!). We have a said/unsaid agreement and know that if we knacker a tool, we won't be replacing with a Temu brand.

Anyway, had a sleep. No more runny *oo. Was aware of the work I'd done getting them flat and bedded so didn't want the sharp sand washing out. Got out there and made a semi concrete mix (1:2:3 of cement:sharp sand:building sand). Just about had a nice consistency, whacked the first blocks down and started squeezing them into the gaps. Then the rain came.

It went from light to semi heavy to properly wet (me). But managed to get the mortar in the gaps and covered it with cement mixing plate and a small plastic swimming pool. Hopefully it doesn't all become a runny mess, but at least it'll dry slowly .

Not much, but work is work. I was dreading picking up this big one to take round the back.






But thankfully it was a 600 x 900 split down the middle. Been there that many months as I built up my strength to get em hauled through the house.


Then it was just a matter of taking as many others across through the back as I could get neatly laid on the grass to start collecting the old sand (from where I'd moved the smaller paving slabs in prep to make the sides and back level.


As the sun went down the hedgehog came out to show its beautiful self and (recently) I'd finally realised where he probably stays. Under my shed with the timber bearers.

That led me to my other brain-ache!! How the heck would I get good ventilation through (left to right) underneath, if the section to the right is gonna be lower than the main/existing shed to its left. As always, I asked AI again for ideas but as always it hallucinated.

What I asked and what it gave me didn't match very well as I was trying to figure out how I'd get through ventilation for the current timber bearers and the existing new/old floor. It dres me a nice pic though!!



Project continues!!