OneGuyFromBarlick

Good weather for it Kev.....

Not DIY, and more than just a bit of a job, but this seems like a good place to put it.
Big Kev looked at some of the work that I needed doing on the outside of the block built workshop and recommended Bryn Wiseman to take on the job. Failing render has been removed ready for fresh render and Bryn has moved on to repointing the gable end of the house. Bryn and his 'workman' Tom, are both hardworking and very thorough. Kev's youngest even joined the team on Monday to install a window in the workshop. Thanks again to Kev for his excellent recommendation, I'm getting a really thorough job done and they are all pleasant to have around.
Bryn is on another job today, at a certain charity shop in Barlick but Tom is up the scaffolding here getting on with the job.

Good weather for outside work Wendy... That's more than half the battle!

Glad to hear they're all looking after you Wendy. Youngest offspring gave me a progress report on Monday evening

My storage was delivered this morning at 9am. After un-boxing and checking all the bits I started screwing it together at 9.30. All went well with the base, both sides, the back and the roof which you secure at the back rail but leave the front loose to fit the doors. I fitted the upper and lower rails to both doors and the central hinge mechanism to each door. The upper and lower rails have a pin at the bottom and and a corresponding hole at the top rail to fit the metal posts at each side screwed to the roof. RH door went on fine, pin at bottom located in the corresponding hole in the base, roof lifted slightly to allow the top hole of the door to locate in the top pin. All went a bit South fitting the left door, same fit, but I cant refit the roof properly. Problem is the flagged yard, It's not quite level across the area that the floor sits on. Problem is the top roof sides and all round the perimeter of the base is not screwed together. That is the next job when the doors are fitted correctly!

I should have checked before I started but I didn't. Fix should be a nice stiff base for it to sit on, that could be levelled before the shed goes on top. I rang my joiner Alan and he is popping round this afternoon to see the rabbit!

I can dissemble it quite easily as there are only four screws securing the roof at the back edge, everything else slots together until the final fixings.

Here is the picture of my build so far.

Cavalry arrived after lunch in the shape of my joiner Alan. He measured up and then went to sort a piece of outdoor five ply timber to make a stable level base for the shed. I pulled the shed to bits while he was away, quite easy as I only had 4 screws to take out to release the roof. He was back in about 15 minutes with the goods and 15 minutes later we had a packed and level platform for the shed. All the underside packing pieces were fixed to the upper platform then once in place we screwed the shed base down to the new platform there we recesses in the shed floor to allow the fixings. I paid cash for Alan's services and then rebuilt the sides and back, shoved the roof back on and re secured with the rear screws. I fitted the right hand door without problem them moved on to the left. Same problem, could not reseat the roof correctly. I took both doors off to give them a coat of looking at. Penny dropped after a few minutes. The top and bottom rails for each door all had the same reference number but in practice were not the same! I noticed the rails on the right door were different to the ones on the left. two of the rails were slightly wider than the other two and I had the two smaller ones on the RH door, the two slightly wider ones were on the LH door, effectively making it a tad higher than the other, hence the roof misalignment. I swapped one from each door around which made them both the same height so they fitted perfectly.



Moving on to the handles and front vertical rail, must have had a lapse of concentration with the instructions here because I fitted it to the outside of the left door rather than than on the inside lip. That Faux Pas cost me five holes on the front face that shouldn't be there. Fortunately a bit of thinking outside the box so to say while I had a brew and I came up with a solution. My treasure chest of electronics hardware upstairs had some white plastic chassis supports, normally inserted through holes in a metal chassis they create a post at the other side that you can use to mount a PCB isolated from the chassis. I chopped the post bit off and then used Araldite Rapid to glue the resultant plastic caps into slightly drilled out larger holes.



The shed is 98% done, I need to pull the whole job lot away from the wall so that I can get the back wall screwed down to the base. Job for tomorrow if it stays fine.

Glad you're getting close to a resolution Ian!

I've got three sides of the roof 'timbered' out now. Should get the last one done tomorrow, I then ned to make a top piece, 3x1 on the hips and some timber around the sides to finish it off.

Nice to see you're not letting your eyes hold you back Kev.....