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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 18 Oct 2017, 22:07

Thanks, Rod.
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 27 Oct 2017, 16:02

Getting there, slowly, but getting there.

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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Mick » 28 Oct 2017, 09:05

Over the last few days I read this whole thread, don't know how I missed it!

Fantastic job, you should be very proud. I love your attention to detail.

Thanks for taking the time to post this, I can only imagine how much time that has taken without the build too.

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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 28 Oct 2017, 15:03

Mick wrote:Over the last few days I read this whole thread, don't know how I missed it!

Fantastic job, you should be very proud. I love your attention to detail.

Thanks for taking the time to post this, I can only imagine how much time that has taken without the build too.

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Thanks, Mick. Had a quick wiz through myself. Shame about the photobucket absent images. One day, maybe I'll get round to replacing them all.

With regard to the detail, most of that comes from MikeG's designs and advice from forum members over the last year or so. The attention, well that's down to being retired and having the luxury of time but the fear of it falling down!!

And you got me thinking about proud - some of my contemporaries retire and maybe do a would tour or a cruise or some other things on their bucket list. This build was one of the few things on my list and I believed all along that I could do it with expert advice and a little muscle from time to time. And while I'm typing this, I'm looking up the garden to it and say to myself, I've built that, and I feel proud that I have. Although I think a would tour or cruise might be really lovely to do, my bucket will be here for many years to come.
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 28 Oct 2017, 15:06

Anyway, enough of this basking in self congratulation, it's not finished yet!!!
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Andyp » 29 Oct 2017, 16:43

Malc2098 wrote:Anyway, enough of this basking in self congratulation, it's not finished yet!!!


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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 29 Oct 2017, 23:10

Having been brought up, educated and employed in times where encouragement and support were little, if any, practised, I find myself embarrassed by all your kind words. But that is the very reason I chose this forum to join, because of that support and encouragement shown in posts all over it.

Thank you all for those words. I am trying to finish the outside of the ‘shop to look neat and well finished, but the inside ain’t pretty and neither is much under the skin. But I have never undertaken anything like this before, nor probably ever will again. It is extremely satisfying to see it develop from an idea, to a computer model, to a bloomin’ great hole in the ground, to a building slowly rising, and although I find it extremely frustrating that it has taken a year to get this far, by and large, I have completed it on my own, dodgy hips, back and shoulders an’ all! And I am proud of that, despite the p*ss being taken out of me by a couple of so called friends on Facebook. I’ll get my own back on them.

I’ve still got a way to go; finish the cladding, paint it, supply power, finish lining the inside, fit it out...then there’ the intersecting roof and deck to start on and connecting up the roof drainage, and then the landscaping around the site and returning the garden to the client, Mission Control. So I’ve got ages to go before it’s finished!
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby jules70 » 29 Oct 2017, 23:21

I wouldn't worry about the time taken. So many don't take their time and it comes back to bite them in the bum ! My brother is a prime example, everything done at a 100mph and now he is trying to sell his house and cant get any real interest because as I say to him he hasn't got any corners left for they have all been cut !

Really enjoyed reading your posts and looking at the pictures over the past months. Thanks.
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 30 Oct 2017, 17:11

You're welcome, Jules.

I took advantage of wall to wall sunshine today to finish cladding round the window.

It's now up to eaves level all the way round. Just the fiddly bits under the eaves and gables to go.

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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby DaveL » 30 Oct 2017, 19:03

Looking good, where did you get the self levitating spirit level? [WINKING FACE]
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby timothyedoran » 30 Oct 2017, 20:36

Excuse me, but please could you slow your progress down a bit. My workshed is falling far behind yours

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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 30 Oct 2017, 21:07

DaveL wrote:Looking good, where did you get the self levitating spirit level? [WINKING FACE]



:D Ha! I have to chuckle to myself. I leave the nails sticking out about 20mm so that I can rest the next board on before lifting it into place. When I've not got a board there, I've got the level just waiting for me to check the underside of the board. I don't do this often, but today I checked the bubble while it was resting on the nails! A blind man would be pleased to see it, as my ole dad used to say!
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 30 Oct 2017, 21:08

timothyedoran wrote:Excuse me, but please could you slow your progress down a bit. My workshed is falling far behind yours

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Sorry, Tim, but if you think you're slow, my helping out mate reminded me today that it was 51 weeks ago that we had the concrete delivery to fill the trenches!
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby fiveeyes » 31 Oct 2017, 01:25

Looking good Malcolm..Rome was not built in day either. ;)
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Tusses » 31 Oct 2017, 13:04

Getting there Malc :D
It's more finished on the outside, than the one I built and have been using for over a decade ! :lol:
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 31 Oct 2017, 15:50

fiveeyes wrote:Looking good Malcolm..Rome was not built in day either. ;)



Thanks 5E, but Rome did exceed the 30 Sqm limit! :)
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 31 Oct 2017, 15:51

Tusses wrote:Getting there Malc :D
It's more finished on the outside, than the one I built and have been using for over a decade ! :lol:


:lol: It must have been built well!!
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 02 Nov 2017, 17:19

One of the gable ends clad (or cladded?!!)

I've got into the habit of leaving the nails about 15mm proud for a day or two for the purpose of being able to take the board off if I got something wrong and for resting the next board on the top row of nails.

What I've noticed is that even only after 24 maybe 48 hours tops, the boards have moved outwards from the battens. So I've got into the habit of waiting a day or so before hammering the nails home. Don't know if that's right or not.

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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Dan0741 » 02 Nov 2017, 17:40

Malc - Those corners look fantastic - excellent work. For info im still using up a pot of that paint that has been opened and closed hundreds of times and is about 2 years old, with a stir the paint is still in good working order so no problems storing it if you have some left over at the end to do touch ups. :D
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 02 Nov 2017, 21:16

Thanks, Dan, but don't look too close!!

It's certainly exceeding good paint, although I might run out because I've been generous with it!

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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Malc2098 » 08 Nov 2017, 16:01

Well that's all the fiddly bits finished with. I rather like how the detail over the window has turned out, as well as over the door.

Now just a coat of neat paint on everything on the outside now and on to making some temporary doors!

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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby timothyedoran » 08 Nov 2017, 16:03

Looks really good. Time for a cuppa now

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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Rod » 08 Nov 2017, 17:09

Yes looks really nice, a “shed” to be proud of.

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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby Andyp » 08 Nov 2017, 18:24

Well done. Deserves more than a cuppa. :obscene-drinkingcheers:

That odd coloured brick is a bit of a distraction though. :)
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Re: Malcolm's Garden Workshop (Cladding time)

Postby 9fingers » 08 Nov 2017, 18:39

Andyp wrote:Well done. Deserves more than a cuppa. :obscene-drinkingcheers:

That odd coloured brick is a bit of a distraction though. :)


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