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Oct 15, 2012 20:25:52 GMT
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Oct 21, 2012 20:16:10 GMT
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Managed to find these by the skip at work. Looks like they fell off a lorry? Also someone dumped a perfectly good water butt in there, so that too will find a new lease of life! The tarpaulins I'l use on the green roof side of the gamesroom for extra protection, they're nice and thick and came just at the right time! 18ft by 14ft is the larger one, I wouldnt like to have to pay for it! We manage to finally get the patio door fitted on the front and decided that we'll order two windows to go either side to let more light in. The frame work was also made to fit the windows. I'm pleased with patio door found on ebay for £100! Believe me that was cheap most I bis on want for well over £250! We got the panels lined up and fixed on the outside of the shed extension. I'm glad to get this buttoned up as the rain we've had its been pouring in there, it'l give an extra area to dry store more stuff out of the main room while we start work on the interior. We used the panels left over from the otherside where we fitted the windows and we've turned them round so its paneled inside already and that way I can fix shelves or hooks anywhere, the outside will be wrapped and then covered with the feather edge board. At 5pm I thought we were done but her dad was keen to crack till 6pm and was up for boxing the end in. We already had a window prepared for it, it came from my mum and dads house when they had french doors fitted. The window was too big but her dad cut the frame in half and we kept the opening side. The whole of the window tilts or opens so in effect its like a door you can walk through! Its also handy while you've already got all the tools out and your in the mood to crack on with a job as we reckoned that extra hour working in floodlight would have been a whole morning or afternoon starting from scratch! Thats it for this weekend, I don't have too much planned for next weekend as she's out all day Saturday! We plan to order the panelling for the outside so maybe it'l start to look like its finished soon!?!
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Last Edit: Oct 21, 2012 20:19:00 GMT by ashley115s
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I hate it when the clocks go back! I find it difficult to remember to take photos early enough before it gets dark! The weekend before last we done a little bit. We realised that the shed area would benefit if we extended the roof out a foot further to protect the door from the weather. As usual we used what we had lying around, most of what we do is an afterthought as we mostly make it up as we go along, visualise it in our heads, measure twice, cut three times etc Then a week later think Ah!!! We should have done it this way! Anyway I had an old gate that I found in the skip over a year ago And decided this would do for the shed door, its a little curved at the top so we thought we'd turn it upside down and put a skirt on it to make it square. We made the doorway to fit the gate and then started to box in the rest when I reminded the farther in law of a small window frame knocking around in his garage! I went and grabbed it a quick measure revealed it was just too big for the hole by 15mm! No worries that was soon shaved off and it now fits like a glove! The glass was there too and it opens so I can make the shed a well ventilated area like they suggest on stinky cans of spray paint and varnish etc This weekend there wasnt much time to get too involved with much so i started to tidy up in preparation for fixing the cladding on ensuring enough workspace around the building. Her old man as bad as me for keeping that something that might come in handy one day gumpf has odds and ends of upvc frames etc and found the frsme to an old door! He said the glass was inside the shed for it and that it was unusual as it was like a stable door with top and bottom openings, pretty rare thats why he kept it when he removed it from a house..... over 20 years ago!!!! I said well wouldnt that fit the shed door instead of that gate? Only one way to find out! Dug the frame out and tried it for size! Apart from the height it fitted straight in! The same size as the gate we were going to fit! I had to take out one piece of wood at the top, 4 screws and dig the ground out a little, in it went! The door panels had a one pin missing so I made one out of an old bolt and hey presto a upvc stable door for the timber shed! The whole building is now glazed, the extra two front windows around the patio door and the missing glass we had to re order cost £130 plus the second hand patio door the building has been glazed for £230! Thats not bad! The timber has been delivered today 180m of weatherboard featheredge cladding 8" and 40m of baton £350. That hurt like hell and the Mrs wasnt best pleased but she knows I'm right It will make the building! The farther in law has been busy trying to get some odds and ends tidyied up so we can crack on at the weekend and he discovered that our usual change of plan has had the usual rob peter to pay paul effect! On the shed outside wall we turned the panels round so the inside is boarded out and we can just fix stuff anywhere we like, however on the outside we cant fix the cladding where we need to! So the vapour wrap has to be peeled off and extra noggins added where neccessary! See, make it up as you go along and then just keep refining it till it works!
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slacky
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Great work Great skills Hats off to ya ! wish i had your ability!
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Nov 12, 2012 11:02:46 GMT
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Heres the last months report! After getting it clad I wanted to get some protection onto the wood before it rained. What a royal pain in the bookackoss choosing the right shade was! Anyway I picked my shade of sadolins and managed to get one full coat on before that deluge we had! Being a cheapskate and basically not really having the budget to do any of this I re used the metal roof panels that came with shed and screwed them on the back as nobody is going to see it. The fixings I er.... aquired a box lying around somewhere after some contractors had finished a job and left them lyimg around for me to tidy;) I think the contrast between the two materials actually looks ok. The floors done 22mm t&c chipboard. At work we've been replacing boundary fence on the M3. The old timber was going in the skip, I aquired a car load 45 lengths of rail approx 67.5 linear Metres Everyone at work thought I was mad to take this and one nearly cried that filled my boot with such rubbish! But I had a plan! I wanted to hide the central RSJ in the roof and it worked out well to get hold of the free timber to do the job. Her old man worked out how we were going to tackle this and did it all on his own which was handy! It took him a couple of afternoons. I stayed outside and fitted the posts to make the porch/canopy area. More timber from the skip! Today we got ready to get the plaster board up so it was out with the insulation (evil stuff) I would have prefered foil backed plasterboard but at £4-£5 extra a sheet that was never going to happen so I made myown foil vapour barrier! These are the breakdown blankets/end of marathon blankets you get, again I aquired these a while back;) Wether it will work or not I don't know? The water butt cover is ready to clad this week. I hired a russian peasant housewife to do some cleaning And the good news is the first of plasterboard is up! hopefully the rest of the ceiling will be done on tuesday. To finish off this report last weekend we went to the dockyard and went on the warrior, here is a picture of the workshop aboard the warrior, I think you'l like it!
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Dec 10, 2012 11:01:33 GMT
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Just re-read this whole thread and I have to say, it is one of my favorites. Your build is both awesome and inspiring. Wish I needed more space and could do a build like that here. You and I seem to be cut from the same cloth when it comes to seeing a use in other peoples junk. Being unemployed at the moment means I do not get around as much as I used to to find stuff. However, if you remember the steel uprights I got along with the Transit 5 years ago from Germany, they have to become a carport at some point. I am hoping to find the roof joists and supports for very cheap or free somewhere as well.... Will have to get it past Nicola, but hopefully she will see why in the end, The galvanised uprights are in the back of this pic.
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Dec 15, 2012 21:07:52 GMT
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Thanks Grizz for your kind words. An endorsement from you keeps me going when if I'm honest I'm getting a little fed up with this! Maybe its because I ve been fighting a cold this week? This week Ive been doing my Cat C driving lessons and test at work which basically means getting home at 11am and achieving much!!! Her old man finished a bit of trim on the outside, he found this off cut which is identical to the woodstain! Unfortunately only enough to do one of two windows! So I have to buy more;( All the insulation I had is now in, Ive got the whole of the back wall to do. Its nice and cosy in here now, you don't really need a jumper on! The ceiling is all boarded and the south wall is done. A couple of weeks ago my sister (a teacher) said they were throwing out a load of stuff I might want, well you know me!?! Straight round with van and got my self a load of goodies, stacked in the garage until a couple fo days ago fed up with falling ove a pile of tools and fixings I went and grabbed this old twin sided mobile bookcase, all the tools and fixings fit and I can roll and spin iy around anywhere I want so its never in the way! Well handy! On ebay these things cost a small fortune new! I also got two sets of triple plastic tray drawers, they too cost a lot new, I'l use them somewhere after a spit and a polish! Yesterday we installed the old church doors I found in the skip at the bottom of the road, my good lord these things are damned heavy and I'm glad they're in their final resting place! Nice feature to break up the plain wall, i'l probably sand them down and wax them an antique pine colour brighten them up a bit, but they don't look half bad as is? Looks a bit like a photography studio! The other doors we've been cutting down to fit along the back wall and trying to work out how were going to do it and back light them. Bit of a pain bit I'm sure it will be worth it! It'l save me two more board of plaster board! I have also decided to scrap the green roof idea and will now save up for the rest of the tiles (actually her old man might buy them cos he wasnt keen on the green roof, handy!) After reading up a bit more on the subject it was looking like the roof might bow with all the weight and after sticking all that platerboard up I didnt want to start seeing lots cracks! Anyway i passed my driving test and thankfully don't have to do that again in a hurry, I always wanted to be the bandit in the trans am not the snowman!
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MiataMark
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Looks a bit like a photography studio! That's what I was thinking, some blackout curtains and you'd be away. Reminds me of somebody I know who built a studio at the bottom of their garden. Great work and space.
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Dec 16, 2012 20:52:40 GMT
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Looking good matey. ;D
Regarding getting things out of skips, its always worth a phone call to the skipyard if you're on the hunt for summat particular.
For instance. in the last couple of months we've had a good half dozen 40 cu yrd RoRo bins full of kingspan insulation sheets. (been ripping some cold stores apart)
Pain in the neck they are, we can't do anything with the insulation itself, so we have to pay to send it on elsewhere, and the lads have to 'peel' the ali backing off them. If anybody needed any i'm sure they'd be glad to let someone take some away.
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Dec 18, 2012 11:46:18 GMT
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I would defo of had some of that insulation! You could have sold it on ebay probably! Id have to have a van if I worked at your place!
Black out curtains.... now theres an idea!
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Dec 18, 2012 23:44:57 GMT
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Looking good matey. ;D Regarding getting things out of skips, its always worth a phone call to the skipyard if you're on the hunt for summat particular. For instance. in the last couple of months we've had a good half dozen 40 cu yrd RoRo bins full of kingspan insulation sheets. (been ripping some cold stores apart) Pain in the neck they are, we can't do anything with the insulation itself, so we have to pay to send it on elsewhere, and the lads have to 'peel' the ali backing off them. If anybody needed any i'm sure they'd be glad to let someone take some away. My whole woodwork shed is lined with it. Even at 0'C it saked one 6 fin oil heater about 30 minutes to completely break the cold, then it is just my body heat that maintains its temperature. Great stuff if you can get some. Mickey brought mine home.
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Dec 23, 2012 20:30:06 GMT
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Brilliant stuff. The fact its mainly done with recycled bits n peices make it even more outstanding
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Dec 23, 2012 20:57:24 GMT
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Id have to have a van if I worked at your place! Don't go there !!!! I'd need a triple garage to store it all ....... i 've got a pallet load of concrete blocks to get home somehow ........ then there was the 10 tons of unused but well weathered bricks ( been sat on a site for 3 yrs) that we had to tip a couple of weeks back, we were far to busy to have time to stack em to one side,so into the crushing heap they went ........
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bazzateer
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Dec 25, 2012 20:01:13 GMT
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Wow.................just spent a couple of hours (at work ;-) ) reading this thread. Amazing bit of work mate, simply amazing. I'm guessing from the visual clues that you're in the Fareham/Portchester area? I'm Fareham born 'n' bred but have been living in the London area since '86 although i'm back 'home' every few weeks or so visiting family.
Must admit your games room would be my workshop/'dirty' room.
Feel free to keep it to yourself but have you come up with a final tally for the cost of the garage?
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Dec 27, 2012 21:19:09 GMT
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The garage totalled about 3k all in. Some of that might have been on the gamesroom. So far the gamesroom stands at 1.5k
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Dec 27, 2012 21:31:18 GMT
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I live in Drayton halfway up Portsdown hill Portsmouth. Lets just say we didnt quite finish the room in time for xmas but we are close! Lots of dreaded lurgy around here kids and wife sick for a week kinda put paid to last minute push I had planned! I'l update in the next couple of day
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bazzateer
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Damn that's cheap! Still, doing it yourself keeps the costs down. Looking very good.
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1968 Singer Chamois Sport 1972 Sunbeam Imp Sport 1976 Datsun 260Z 2+2 1998 Peugeot Boxer Pilote motorhome 2003 Rover 75 1.8 Club SE (daily) 2006 MG ZT 190+ (another daily) 2007 BMW 530d Touring M Sport (tow car)
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Dec 30, 2012 23:24:54 GMT
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Well heres our christmas dinner! Not in the gamesroom! Its nearly there but without killing myself and apart from the fact she wasnt having any of it we just had it in the kitchen! The electrics are all in and connected, an amalgamation of parts from leftover garage stuff, her old mans collection and my dads collection means yet again its done for nothing which is handy because I couldnt afford any! Actually I spent £2.41 on the electrics but I'l get to that in a bit! Its all plaster boarded now and the door panellin is al in place. Looks a bit like an old pub? The edge beading is all done just ready for a bit of plaster. The switch board I think we salvaged from the garage when we took it down, it looks a bit rough but it works! I might tart it up a bit, probably put a box round it, either way nobodys going to see it! So thats about it for the minute. A lot of filling in to do then even more sanding down and prepping before painting. 20 sheets of plasterboard 2000 screws one tub of easy fill, half a bag of easy fill (no you cant mix it up in the old bucket put a lid on it and come back to it like the ready to go stuff!) 10 lengths of edge bead. So far! Windows in the door panelling will be back lit (thats the £2.41 bit of the electrics!) using light pendants and energy saving bulbs because I had a cupboard full of free ones we had 5 pendants and had to buy 5 more even thought they only had 4! I came home and found the fifth one to make ten.
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Feb 17, 2013 10:04:10 GMT
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Its been 47 odd days since I updated this, I have been busy but photographs of me sanding filler night after night do not an interesting page make! Every screw and joint corner was filled and smoothed. What a royal pain in the backside that was! Every evening for two weeks for at least and hr and a half I was out there plus some weekends! I estimate about 20 hours sanding I did in there! To save money on having it plastered I'm not sure it was any quicker!? I painted it white one morning after working all night on Saturday I got home at 7am and spent 4.5 hrs giving it its first coat until I ran out of paint (which was old emulsion found in my grandads garage!) It was only homebase emulsion and I was surprised how well it covered, so I bought another 15litres which I've also used! £41 spent on new timber for the skirting board and the rest to cover the RSJ in the middle of the big doors and to trim around the side wall. I've been staining it trying to blend it with the original. I started with sadolins mahogany because thats what was on the shelf! I've since moved onto redwood and a squirt of jacobean oak dye to come up with a closer colour (all used tins) Blends in nicely I'm happy with that! I filled the screw holes and wiped the doors with the solution, you can see the three doors on the left have been done so far in this photo, its just freshens them up. All done. I changed the lights for new ones, the trouble we had fitting them! Beat the plasterboard to death but we got around it with some foam and copious amounts of filler! This old cabinet I salvaged from my grandads garage, its made of hardwood, it looked like he made it himself. Afte a few modifications cutting the back out and a shel,f turning the door round etc it now covers the ugly fuse box, I will paint it white the same as the skirting board! I also ordered and finished the roof tiles another £180. So far I think its standing in at around £1600. I also went crazy and bought a pool table off Ebay for £102! I hadnt bargained on winning it so therefore hadnt discussed it with her indoors so that awkward moment came when you realise there isnt going to be a good moment to slip into conversation came! 'Oh look I've won a pool table on ebay!' Crash bang stomp for 5 mins etc etc!!! I just about got away with I can honestly say its the 2nd heaviest thing in the world moving a pool table! The heaviest being a two post ramp!
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