teaboy
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Years ago I had grandiose plans for building a large workshop at the top of my garden. The problem was that I never managed to muster up the budget to do it. The single concrete garage I have is not only too small to work in but is also falling down. A friend of mine has recently moved house, where he moved to had a six metre square wooden workshop in the garden.   He said what you could do with is something like this, it would be ideal and wouldn't cost a fortune. He then decided that he was going to replace his shed with a new metal building and did I want the old one... I managed to rope in my future son-in-law the other weekend and we went down with a borrowed van and trailer and started to dismantle it. The handsome chap in the picture is Mark, my friend and benefactor.  It was real hard work, by the time I took the van and trailer back it had been an 18 hour day.  And we didn't manage to get it all done. There was this much left.  The following weekend the son-in-law was working so Dr (Mrs) Tea volunteered her assistance. It was only a 12 hour day for the second trip. We had to cart it up the drive at my end because I couldn't get the trailer up there, the drive is too steep and the back of the trailer grounded out.  It is all collected now and piled up in my back garden. I had the area for my originally planned workshop dug out and filled with hardcore some years ago. It had become overgrown so I am currently clearing the site.  Because I live in an 'area of outstanding natural beauty' I need to apply for planning permission so that is something I need to sort. The positive I am taking from this is that I am going to apply to have the shed raised up on a brick wall as the headroom wasn't great. This will be made from the reclaimed bricks I had for the planned workshop. Let's hope the planning committee are sympathetic to my cause... |
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Ah - A Proper oil tank avoidance scheme instead of the poor excuses to date - fully understood & allowed - certain words within your planning application will tick the boxes of the planning department & committee - mention vehicles by all means - mention workshop by all means but insert the following words several times here & there in your application 'Historic, Heritage, Conservation, Restoration, Preservation' (ask me how I know  ) |
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Last Edit: Aug 9, 2020 12:52:54 GMT by Deleted
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......Quite impressed that the Dr gets you to work at one and a half times the rate that you work with your son in Law. ...🤔
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That'll be a lovely place to, I don't know, finish an oil tank...
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Needs a bigger hammer mate.......
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teaboy
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I've come inside for a cuppa and to rest my aching knees. I have filled three green bins and three rubble bags and been half eaten by red ants.  In other news, we now have two new trainee quality control officers.  Charles is not overly impressed,  |
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I started reading your Porsche tale this morning only to twig halfway through that I’ve read it before. Anyway, I’m all up to date now and looking forward to the shed build.
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Those kittens! Swoon So lovely. The one on the right is going to be quite fluffy ! |
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teaboy
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Ah - A Proper oil tank avoidance scheme instead of the poor excuses to date - fully understood & allowed - certain words within your planning application will tick the boxes of the planning department & committee - mention vehicles by all means - mention workshop by all means but insert the following words several times here & there in your application 'Historic, Heritage, Conservation, Restoration, Preservation' (ask me how I know ) Thanks Grumps, I'll use that. ......Quite impressed that the Dr gets you to work at one and a half times the rate that you work with your son in Law. ...🤔 The Lovely Doctor is a real slave driver.  That'll be a lovely place to, I don't know, finish an oil tank... Perhaps when this shed is done I could build an annex as an oil tank room... I started reading your Porsche tale this morning only to twig halfway through that I’ve read it before. Anyway, I’m all up to date now and looking forward to the shed build. Once the shed is done I'll have to think of new excuses to explain the lack of progress. Those kittens! Swoon So lovely. The one on the right is going to be quite fluffy ! It is starting to look like the non fluffy one is going to be 'in charge'. |
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bstardchild
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Aug 10, 2020 10:52:56 GMT
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Because I live in an 'area of outstanding natural beauty' I need to apply for planning permission so that is something I need to sort. The positive I am taking from this is that I am going to apply to have the shed raised up on a brick wall as the headroom wasn't great. This will be made from the reclaimed bricks I had for the planned workshop. Let's hope the planning committee are sympathetic to my cause... Good luck with the applications - I hope you have sympathetic neighbours - I had to jump thro all sorts of hoops with planning when I extended my single garage to a tandem one - a least one of my neighbours objected on the grounds that I would then be running a business from a residential dwelling if I had a garage that big. Luckily the planning officer could see I had a car addiction and when he had a word with my nearest neighbour they said I was very considerate - they never heard any noise after 10pm (my quiet time cut-off) and eventually I got the planning consent through |
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teaboy
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Aug 10, 2020 13:42:29 GMT
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Because I live in an 'area of outstanding natural beauty' I need to apply for planning permission so that is something I need to sort. The positive I am taking from this is that I am going to apply to have the shed raised up on a brick wall as the headroom wasn't great. This will be made from the reclaimed bricks I had for the planned workshop. Let's hope the planning committee are sympathetic to my cause... Good luck with the applications - I hope you have sympathetic neighbours - I had to jump thro all sorts of hoops with planning when I extended my single garage to a tandem one - a least one of my neighbours objected on the grounds that I would then be running a business from a residential dwelling if I had a garage that big. Luckily the planning officer could see I had a car addiction and when he had a word with my nearest neighbour they said I was very considerate - they never heard any noise after 10pm (my quiet time cut-off) and eventually I got the planning consent through My immediate neighbours are fine, it’s the bible bashing nob up the road who obviously hasn’t read the bit about ‘love thy neighbour’, and likes to stick his nose in other people’s business. The only way he would even know it was there is if he walked all the way up my garden but he is guaranteed to complain because that’s the kind of person he is. |
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jamesd1972
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Aug 10, 2020 13:46:08 GMT
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Nice to see somebody else having to do some graft in the garden !
Not sure if you have already applied but one trick I have heard is to always apply for bigger than you need / want so if they say no you can go down a bit in size...
James
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Can I just leave this here? ;-)
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Sept 24, 2020 23:37:37 GMT
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How much tea would an oil tank hold though? It would make it rusty - silly idea ......not if he had finished the stainless one! |
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Last Edit: Oct 3, 2020 8:41:00 GMT by yoeddynz
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Darkspeed
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He's far to busy having to get Dr Tea' pulling nails out of his feet and splinters out of his hands.
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teaboy
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Hello.
Most evenings and weekends I have been clearing the garden in preparation for the shed, weather permitting of course.
Over the years it has become like the wilds of Borneo so there is much to cut down.
That’s the easy bit, getting rid of the stuff is hard work.
Took the nipper to university last weekend.
This weekend isn’t going to be too productive, was at the hospital last night with something in my eye.
The A & E people have referred me to a man with a prodder tomorrow.
I would say that it’s something to look forward to but I can’t really see much with the cream in my eye.
The weather is dreadful anyway so I wouldn’t have gotten any gardening done.
Right, I’m going to get the Lovely Doctor to take me to JJ’s cafe for a fry up.
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jamesd1972
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All the best with the eye quack. Far from the best experience but not much in the way of options.
James
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Speedy recovery please. Then pics of borneo afterwards |
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nze12
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"That’s the easy bit, getting rid of the stuff is hard work."
Can you hire a petrol-powered mulcher for a day? Byproduct is good to spread around trees and shrubs. Only downside is the blackbirds have an absolute ball scattering it around again!
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1986 BMW E30 refreshed to original spec
1973 BMW E12 520 converting to Motorsport 530
1982 XJS V12 converting to 5 speed manual
Many landscaping projects overriding above!
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum!
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was at the hospital last night with something in my eye. The A & E people have referred me to a man with a prodder tomorrow. How was the prodder man? Some years ago I cut the top off a copper water pipe with an angle grinder and wound up with a couple of microscopic bits in my eye. No eye protection. I'm an idiot. After about 3 days I couldn't stand it any longer and wound up in Moorfields Eye Hospital. A nice doctor has my head propped against the 'steady' while he looks at my sore eye with a microscope. He's already removed a couple of bits of copper with a cotton bud. "I think that's it." He said taking another look. "Oh no there's more." He gives it a wipe with a cotton bud but it won't move. "Hmmm." he says. Not moving from the microscope he waves a hand at his assistant. "Pass me a needle please." No he wasn't joking. Yes, he did remove another couple of bits with the tip of a needle. I'm more likely to wear eye protection these days. James |
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