I have news. Exciting news. Shed news......
My neighbour in our old house used to call me Mike Fivesheds. I am thrilled to report that we are now back up to that minimum quota. Unfortunately, due to camera issues, I don't have much to show of the construction of the potting shed. You'll recall that last we saw of it it looked like this:
Well, that spine wall went up and up and up. Whenever I had a spare day I'd go and lay a few more bricks or blocks. Once it got vulnerable to the wind I built a 3x2 frame to brace it, and eventually when it got to full height, I bolted on a plate and made a roof of 6x2s:
Ooooh, look at that wedged scarf!!!
As luck would have it, I was involved as project architect in the re-roofing of my local pub. The old roof was stripped, and some post war concrete plain tiles were going to be chucked out. They were in good order, and nicely weathered, so I snaffled a couple of thousand of them. They look pretty good on the potting shed roof, I reckon:
The windows are saved from the house (they're 1960s softwood), and the part-glazed oak door is the old back door of the house. One of the windows needed a a new cill and a scarf to repair a mullion:
I haven't quite finished lining the inside, and my wife has moved in already:
And that's not it!! In other exciting shed news, with hundreds of tiles left over after doing the potting shed I decided to re-roof this beauty:
That was a bit of an emergency overspill shed I built when I had to move my tools out of the house last year. I stuck a quick mono-pitch roof on it and left it unfinished. Well.....
Off with the old:
Some 4x2 rafters and a 6x2 ridgebeam:
Membrane and battens:
And hey presto, a new roof:
The feather-edge boards sit in a pile awaiting painting, so this will soon be finished.
You'll all be thrilled to hear that I am putting the final touches to a planning application for 3 more sheds (being on former agricultural land, they don't come under Permitted Developments), and one of the existing sheds will be demounted and moved to form a chicken coop. I will then be Mike Eightsheds and life will be complete.