Thread: OK show us your shed!!!!

Originally Posted by gusthedog

How many chainsaws does one man need?!?

Gee thats quite a cutting remark...


sorry

Originally Posted by Scouse

Don't feel bad!!
It's been sitting next to this for 4 months now:

I love the Jack and the Chassis stand, sitting there all by themselves, hoping maybe one day a car may turn up........

Originally Posted by 33chinacars

Hi Shane

Can you extend the uprights on any of you sheds to raise the roof. Have see in done before

Gary

Here we go ... bloody high isn't it.



I found it's specs online and was staggered to find it was just over 2.8 meters high



We have the shed I work on stuff in, I try not to park anything in this, it's only 12 x 7 meters so will fill quickly.... The door opening is only about 2meters



Then there's the carport.... it's about 10 x 7 meters .... height, at the back it's less than two meters, that is a tiny pop top under it that isn't mine. It's low... very low for a caravan.... hmmm....



We have this 10 x 6 meter shed ( diffucult access, 2meter height on the rafters and full of cars) ... and the ugly brown POS that leaks like a sieve and was built out of already stuffed 2nd hand materials 25years ago....



it only has bikes, mowers and maybe a car in it if I'm feeling brave. I can't even walk under it's rafters without ducking (so there just under 6foot high), it's rotten, it stinks................. Hmm, but it's the only location where I can easily back big trailers and caravans too.... hhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Out with the angle grinder :evil



I chopped the front wall out, removed the roof and the side wall........ But left two walls on otherwise there would be no cross bracing for the frame......... then chopped the uprights through. I found it was actually sitting on the bloody ground. I started by digging holes around it that were deep enough to get the trolley jack under with.... then lifting it evenly all around... Then I moved onto a bottle jack, sitting ontop of a stack of tires. I thought I had it nice and high at this point, so grabbed a 3meter long piece of lumber to check the rafter height (I was thinking 3meters would be enough to jack the caravan to check wheel bearings etc...). Yep, I was right, so close I only had about another meter to go



It's taken a while, but I'm finally there now. It only took a stack of four car wheels with a bottle jack lifted to it's highest sitting on top of the stacked wheels. I just need to weld the extended uprights back to the footings.... I don't trust the old footings (given the shed was literally sitting on the ground). So I have dug secondary ones beside the existing footings, and will weld a secondary set of footing off the uprights, over too these holes and cement them in as well.



Then all I'll need to do is chase up some decent roofing iron and finish re-cladding it... You don't have to be insane, but it helps :clown:

seeya,
Shane L.

I'm sure it's nice but you need to host your photos somewhere else for us to see them.

Originally Posted by Scouse

I'm sure it's nice but you need to host your photos somewhere else for us to see them.

You can't see the junk yard ?? Oh well I'll try again, my wife certainly is starting to get vocal about the "garden ornaments" around the place

OK pics of shed

This is the front showing all the bushes and trees I cleared. There is also a curved garden bed in there to make access dificult



Inside showing how the sorting to get the garage back is progressing. That's the brothers X19 parked in there.



Scored the second shed so now I have to pick it up.
Will finish clearing the bushes and tree debris out the front so I can dig out the raised bed. Should be adding 6 meters to the front.

Mate we should organise a working bee weekend and get that shed sorted!

Originally Posted by Scouse

Don't feel bad!!
It's been sitting next to this for 4 months now:

Since I started this thread.... an update

We are extending again to put in a spraybooth, a area for the finger folder, and the guillotine.

Pics shortly

Mrs hh