With winter almost upon us no one likes to be working outside and my current situation for my long term projects is a small plywood box built around the car in the drive with a tarp roof. it keeps most of the weather off but is by no means warm and dry, also the lack of insulation means that my neighbours frequently get an education in creative expletives.
So quite some time ago a large amount of concrete was mixed and layed down then a retaining wall built around it.
It measures in at 30' x 15', the foundations are at least 12" deep and the bed is minimum 6" thick. I also layed visquene sheet under the bed and the foundations to keep the water out.
Since the concrete was layed it has been used for storage and hardstanding which has been much nicer than wallowing in the mud that was there previously however its a bit to open to the elements for my liking.
I was a bit slow getting everything sorted hence why I'm trying to do all the work in the cold and rain rather than the nice sunny days we had earlier in the year but finally i got my geese in a line and ordered all the timber and roof sheets so we can get a frame, roof and walls sorted.
Saturday was a let-down due to the rain but Sunday dawned foggy and damn but not raining.
The current squatter had to be unwillingly dragged from the premises before we could start.
Just far enough out of the way so we could get started
Then removed the tons of leaves that were sat in the bottom
The plan is to built it like a kind of lean too against my dads workshop, hes a joiner so was a considerable help on this project.
Fist off we had to cut a big lump of the sheets off his workshop, break out the big grinder.
Before any of you worry I'm almost 100% positive that its cement fibre board and not asbestos.
These sheets will be going back on on the new outer wall of the workshop
We came across a few bird nests in there that were evicted and some rather surprised spiders.
A beam gets fastened along the wall for the joists to connect to. Due to the layout of the workshop we had to fasten it directly to the steelwork rather than use an existing wooden beam that runs along a bit further up, so it got bolted through the steelwork and some extra vertical supports.
The outer wall is going to be held up by 4" posts in post shoes under the wall and the outer framework will be fastened down to the wall.
Joists and purlins going in.
By the time all of that was up and done there was cold beers calling and the next steps are the front frame to hand the corrugated bards from and the roof to fit, since the roof sheets didnt arrive before the weekend then we sheeted over the exposed wall with some old plastic sheeting and hopefully it will stop too much water getting through into the other workshop.
Hopefully the roof sheets will arrive in the next few days and next weekend the weather will be dry enough to get them all fastened on.
Stuff i still need to order/sort.
Inner cladding
Lighting
Wiring
Airline
Doors
I would also like a window somewhere
I'm pretty sure i have enough insulation boards left to clad it but we will have to see.
There is plenty still to do as the adventures continue then once thats done i can get back on with the cars.
So quite some time ago a large amount of concrete was mixed and layed down then a retaining wall built around it.
It measures in at 30' x 15', the foundations are at least 12" deep and the bed is minimum 6" thick. I also layed visquene sheet under the bed and the foundations to keep the water out.
Since the concrete was layed it has been used for storage and hardstanding which has been much nicer than wallowing in the mud that was there previously however its a bit to open to the elements for my liking.
I was a bit slow getting everything sorted hence why I'm trying to do all the work in the cold and rain rather than the nice sunny days we had earlier in the year but finally i got my geese in a line and ordered all the timber and roof sheets so we can get a frame, roof and walls sorted.
Saturday was a let-down due to the rain but Sunday dawned foggy and damn but not raining.
The current squatter had to be unwillingly dragged from the premises before we could start.
Just far enough out of the way so we could get started
Then removed the tons of leaves that were sat in the bottom
The plan is to built it like a kind of lean too against my dads workshop, hes a joiner so was a considerable help on this project.
Fist off we had to cut a big lump of the sheets off his workshop, break out the big grinder.
Before any of you worry I'm almost 100% positive that its cement fibre board and not asbestos.
These sheets will be going back on on the new outer wall of the workshop
We came across a few bird nests in there that were evicted and some rather surprised spiders.
A beam gets fastened along the wall for the joists to connect to. Due to the layout of the workshop we had to fasten it directly to the steelwork rather than use an existing wooden beam that runs along a bit further up, so it got bolted through the steelwork and some extra vertical supports.
The outer wall is going to be held up by 4" posts in post shoes under the wall and the outer framework will be fastened down to the wall.
Joists and purlins going in.
By the time all of that was up and done there was cold beers calling and the next steps are the front frame to hand the corrugated bards from and the roof to fit, since the roof sheets didnt arrive before the weekend then we sheeted over the exposed wall with some old plastic sheeting and hopefully it will stop too much water getting through into the other workshop.
Hopefully the roof sheets will arrive in the next few days and next weekend the weather will be dry enough to get them all fastened on.
Stuff i still need to order/sort.
Inner cladding
Lighting
Wiring
Airline
Doors
I would also like a window somewhere
I'm pretty sure i have enough insulation boards left to clad it but we will have to see.
There is plenty still to do as the adventures continue then once thats done i can get back on with the cars.
