So I had booked a day off on friday to drive to Bristol and pick up the latest eBay purchase for Mrs Woodstalker; it was a Little Tikes Slide and climbing frame set for the garden (bearing in mind my daughter is 10 months old
) any way on Friday morning just as i was about to set off Mrs W notices that all the felt on the summerhouse had ripped off in the high winds of the previous day which was a little annoying. The summerhouse is currently used to store all sorts that i could do without getting wet so this needed sorting before it rained on Saturday lunchtime according tot he forecast.
Saturday morning required an early morning dash to the Building supply place to get some thick felt; i originally planned to re roof it over the summer anyway because it was starting to leak in a few places but now i didn't have time to get in an order of corrugated bitumen sheets which i banked on using so felt it was!
It took a couple of hours, mainly because we had both been up all Friday night with the little one and i had a slightly dicky tummy which made being up a ladder very exciting!
Here are the progress pics:
The original felt just laying back over before i stripped it off.
After stripping it off i found it was fairly damp with a lot of mildew and mould so i sprayed it all with a thin bleach solution to kill as much of it as i could and left the roof open to dry whilst i cut my felt to the correct size.
Edge pieces all done
Capping piece almost on
And finished, just in time because it started to rain not too long after this. So i retired to watch the 6 nations and await the arrival of our guests for the weekend.
They left on Sunday at about 2 o'clock so i thought i'd best get on sorting Mrs Woodstalkers greenhouse out which we have been carting around for two house moves. For her birthday we went to the Garden Centre on friday afternoon and got a load of veggies and tomatoes for the new veggie patch so she needs the greenhouse to start them off. I needed to put it on a firm base in the corner and the other week, inspired by a workshop build on here, i used that plastic mesh:
Here's the plot
I had load of old bricks from a path i had removed previously so they went in to be whacked level by the sledgehammer.
Then a load of scalpings reclaimed from the same path
Then a blinding layer of sand
finally the membrane and then the grid with more gravel reclaimed from the same path. I had just enough grids to fit the base of the greenhouse but i figured it would be better to have an edge all round and a bigger one at the front where the door is so i ordered four more which meant this is as far as i got. Plus it was getting dark and also starting to rain so i called it a day at this point.
Sorry for the long post but since i can't ad anything to my workshop build i thought i would show you all i do actually do something!