• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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  1. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    @duke I'd heard of the polymer type stuff but not looked into it. Do you reckon I ought to, considering I'm trying to continue lower budget and have my cement/building sand (and sharp) ready to go soon. I guess I ought to now you've suggested it!! Never thought about diagonal (do you mean...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Just threw some info at AI (it guessed the old/new dimensions I suppose using my image of the off camber shed - it wasn't too far off!) telling it I didn't fancy moving it. Churned me out this plan/image. A bit of discrepancies with its own drawings - seems to be 2 different roof options etc -...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Came back from work the same night as it got cancelled. Means we went out today aswell as me getting them last 2 slabs down. Just checked and they're the British Standard/Council types at 42kg a pop. So really pleased my back remains intact (and extremely thankful to God above). Anyway, dry mix...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Anyway, not got much done and now at work for the night shifts. So... Got 2 or 3 more slabs down between the few hours I managed to get in the last couple days. Knee twitched a bit yesterday but so far so good. Cleared out alot of the shed but then the big teddy I reside with, chucked out a...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    I actually have my mate Ali who rents out scaffold (don't ask, he's the accidental builder and I manage to sometimes confirm plans with him nicely). I should be able to get a good few lengths off of him. I will be rolling it uphill! Then somehow twisting it 90 degrees so the door is accessible...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Aha. Good point there sir. But I suppose I'll need to get underneath anyway and I've strengthened (with racking from CSL type lengths) along the sides. Good wood all round inside so I'm hopeful it will pass the lift. Roof also made out of 22mm tongue and groove so I'm really really hopeful...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Aha, yes I get you now. Moving the gate is well down the line 'eventually'. Building on the boundary line, plans re-magined (there will be alot of this replanning going on, thanks to this thread 😆) and I'll ensure there is a >1m gap which leaves just about enough for access and not needing to...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    This sounds like really good information Lons. But, I don't understand what you mean 🫣
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Yup, don't want none of this. Just want to make my shed bigger with minimal hassle etc.
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Not really. Just get through without too much hassle 😆
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Mike, thats great input as always. I think I originally learnt about the roof/water/slope thing from one of your threads and its always racked my brain about how to close up a roof without going over boundary and slope towards my garden. Ceding out a bit of land sounds fantastic (exaggerated...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Not sure if this gives better representation. 1. Newly moved plum tree from below 'no3'. This is in its 3rd year and given fruits once. Trying not to kill it off so must be careful. 2. The work in progress with addition of a frontal area to the current shed. Also being extended to the right by...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Plan (ever changing) continue working was to continue working around this one and eventually hoping that it will be incorporated/amalgamated into the new one. Problem with moving this existing one as it is towards that fence is that, its now a knackered fence. Seems rot got into some of the...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    May as well put down this little project here into words. Basically I'm planning to increase the footprint, but budget is limited. A few 'must haves' and a few 'could do with' items on the list. Which hopefully will make themselves apparent as I get along. No specific plan in mind, just a loose...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    @dukeit just occurred to me that my laughing face might get taken incorrectly. I wasn't laughing at the fact I was asked if I had a drawing. I was just thinking at how terrible my stick drawings are these days and how to jot whats in my brain down on paper. Anyway, still a few niggles going on...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Yes, you're right there. Might have to rethink that a little and (hopefully by then have a canopy nearer/attached to the outhouse) store the shed stuff elsewhere whilst I dismantle it when I can still get to it (mainly the roof I suppose). Otherwise space would be a bit tight though not...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Yes. Around that current shed once I have put a little extension on the front and bring it straight (as well as give me some extra storage space for now) I'll be digging down for a 15m² brick building base. Dig down at least 35cm (at the front of the shed to bring it level with the path at the...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    At the risk of bringing this thread down a level, I'm gonna share my 'makings' yet againb😆. So the shed we had erected 10 years ago, was put up in a rush as I we had just moved in and were just 'making do'. As a result it was not only put on a slant, it was not not built by myself and nor were...
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    Reclaimed sapele

    My mum used to do a good one. Every so often she'd just chuck out as much 'gathered' stuff as she could get her hands on. As a result the house always remained rather tidy. Here here to 'mums'. Poor thing, the other day I was doing her wooden wheelchair ramp upgrade (council assessors were...
  20. shafiq

    Reclaimed sapele

    Lol
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