Projects - Uber Shed and Square Shed

[Roadkill]

Picked up the doors on my custom-built timber roof rack !

Did the job a treat and only cost £14 in materials (which I can re-use).

The doors are loosely in . . . I need to finish packing them properly but they're keeping 90% of the weather out, now.

I'll get a picture once I can get out there without getting soaked !!!

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Roadkill

Picked up the doors on my custom-built timber roof rack !

LOL!!

:pictures:

[Roadkill]

Quoting: Cunning Plan

:pictures:

Funny, as I was gonna take some but didn't.

It's sitting in the back garden so I'll take a pic . . . you'll have to imagine the rest yourself.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: Roadkill

The doors are loosely in . . . I need to finish packing them properly but they're keeping 90% of the weather out, now.

I'll get a picture once I can get out there without getting soaked !!!

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Quoting: Roadkill

Funny, as I was gonna take some but didn't.

It's sitting in the back garden so I'll take a pic . . . you'll have to imagine the rest yourself.

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The two shorter (vertical in the pic) bits in the middle have small notches cut in them that located on the Mondeo's roof-rails.  I used 8 heavy duty cable ties to attach the frame to the roof, then 30m of nylon rope to secure the door to the frame and the frame back to the rails.

[art b]

the brown doors look good ...

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Roadkill

I'll get a picture once I can get out there without getting soaked !!!

They are excellent, I was expecting some flimsy plywood doors!

Quoting: Roadkill

It's sitting in the back garden so I'll take a pic . . . you'll have to imagine the rest yourself.

Ha!

[Roadkill]

Quoting: art b

the brown doors look good

Quoting: Cunning Plan

They are excellent, I was expecting some flimsy plywood doors!

Having hung a exterior timber door, treat it with 4 coats of quality exterior treatment and still have it f*** up after a year, I knew It had to be uPVC.

I was looking for a single door (originally a white one from Wickes) but decided brown was the obvious choice.

I stumbled on this french door set - which just happened to fit the opening left in the shed at that time almost perfectly so it all made sense . . .

They set me back £209 (my budget was £150) which, although epic, was less than quarter what a decent new set would cost . . . Fitting and aftercare is simple and easy too, PLUS I can open both doors up meaning I can get some big (Cadillac sized) parts in there if need be.

As a plus, plus, they let in enough light so that you don't need any windows during the day, too.

FTW !! <-- Even if the seller did mess me about a little bit !

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Roadkill

I knew It had to be uPVC.

So they are plastic with a brown 'wood effect'?

Quoting: Roadkill

get some big (Cadillac sized) parts in there if need be

Let's have a picture of them open

[Roadkill]

Quoting: Cunning Plan

So they are plastic with a brown 'wood effect'?

Yup.

If I'd know they were that "real" looking I would've gone for them for the rest of the house when I had the windows done years back instead of white (white's a ba$tard to keep clean) . . .

Quoting: Cunning Plan

Let's have a picture of them open

Will do.

I was out there in the dark last night, braving the rain and thunder to get the timber infills cut, planed and fitted to the top and side of the frame.
This meant I could finish fixing the frame, rough seal it (from the inside) and fit the internal beading around the glass inside.

This morning I popped out before work and finished fitting the gutter and creosoted the timber I fitted last night.

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Just need to seal the outside with (brown) frame sealant and she's 100% weather-proof !

[Cunning Plan]

That is very tidy!

Looks professional.

[Roadkill]

Hopefully better than professional, based on what I see "Professionals" doing on a day-to-day basis !

[Roadkill]

Back on the shed . . .

With the pool and gazebo out of the way this is the first opportunity I've had to stand back and take a proper look at the shed.

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I took advantage of the reasonable weather yesterday to finish sealing up the outside of the doors.

Ian popped over in the afternoon and helped get the final bits of plasterboard fitted, too.

Next job is to continue filling . . . . . .

. . . . . Then the sanding begins.

[Cunning Plan]

Amazing.

Did you not fancy carrying the gutter all the way around?

[Roadkill]

Quoting: Cunning Plan

Did you not fancy carrying the gutter all the way around?

They do a 135* bend but the angle of the shed is more acute - more like 120* so it wouldn't have worked very well.  

What I did do was put a ridge on that side under the felt so the water doesn't run off there, but is directed to the gutter on the long side.

[art b]

Quoting: Roadkill

They do a 135* bend but the angle of the shed is more acute - more like 120* so it wouldn't have worked very well.

thats fair enough
i had the same problem on my uber carport , so i set one run higher than the outer , then cut a semi circle out ot the lower run and the other one comes into it...
[i may get a pic]

[Andy]

Thats awesome, are you wiring it up?

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Roadkill

What I did do was put a ridge on that side under the felt so the water doesn't run off there, but is directed to the gutter on the long side.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: art b

i had the same problem on my uber carport , so i set one run higher than the outer , then cut a semi circle out ot the lower run and the other one comes into it...

Similar to how I connected the end of the garage . . . that runs perpendicular but is directly above the shed guttering so I trimmed the outlet back to a minimum and dropped it into the shed gutter.

Quoting: Andy

Thats awesome, are you wiring it up?

Yeah, there's pics earlier.

It's got 2 double mains sockets inside, 1 double mains sockets outside and 2 4-foot strip-lights (not yet fitted).

[Roadkill]

Quoting: Roadkill

I use a wickes ready mix compound (I'll post a picture later).

While I remember.

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It sands good and keeps pretty well over long periods of time in storage.  

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Roadkill

While I remember.

Appreciated.

[Roadkill]

Been slowly building up the filler in thin coats as it's taking a while to dry out there (no heating).

Went out there last night and hit it HARD with a sander !

90 minutes and a bucket of dust later it's nearly ready for paint . . . I've just got to hand-sand a couple of areas that were difficult to get to and have a hoover-up.

Bought the paint earlier (white) . . . I was gonna do something a *little* more interesting but resisted.

I need to get it done ASAP so I can shelf-it-out and start using it.

[art b]

Quoting: Roadkill

I need to get it done ASAP so I can shelf-it-out and start filling it with beer

[Roadkill]

My mind was thinking one thing . . my fingers typed another . . .

[Roadkill]

A bit disappointing on the progress front this weekend . . . I PVA'd the walls and ceiling then added the caulking to the edges and corners on Friday, hopefully ready for paint on Saturday.

Unfortunately, even with the heater on out there the caulk wasn't dry enough to take paint until last night . . . .

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I've since put 2 coats of white on the walls and ceiling . . . I'll put a third on tonight and hopefully that'll be sufficient.

If all goes to plan I should be fitting the lights tomorrow night.

I was toying with what to do with the floor . . . I was going to put carpet tiles down but think I'll be sensible and go with floor paint . . . .

[art b]

you could get an offcut of vinyl for the floor  ....