• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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  1. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Thanks v much Ian. I've decided to leave the current structure in place and build to the side/front/back of it. Have also managed to find one of Mikes threads on here (and UKW) about how to do 'shed' the cheaper way. So, thats basically the update for now 😀 but I'm determined to get lots more...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Its a dead end path Pete. Some of the houses have already blocked their bits off (and how it became a dead end) and when speaking to the council about it they said it wasn't theirs. So, since its been almost 12 years and no one else has claimed it I just assumed it was ours 😆. I'm the mug that...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    https://www.screwfix.com/p/sika-fastfix-self-setting-paving-jointing-compound-deep-grey-14kg/388ky#product_additional_details_container Something like this @duke
  4. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Yup, sticking with all that Duke as I've read Mike's threads where he discusses at length and also checked building regs. I have 15m² I can work to. Current shed base is 2.4 x 1.8 (4.3m²). So however I design it (left gand side will have a 1m gap from the fence) I'll still be only working to a...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    I'm sticking with staying away from boundary wall Duke. According to the council that back path doesn't belong to them so I can see any problem working to that if need calls for it (where the tree and gate is).
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    @duke I'd heard of the polymer type stuff but not looked into it. Do you reckon I ought to, considering I'm trying to continue lower budget and have my cement/building sand (and sharp) ready to go soon. I guess I ought to now you've suggested it!! Never thought about diagonal (do you mean...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Just threw some info at AI (it guessed the old/new dimensions I suppose using my image of the off camber shed - it wasn't too far off!) telling it I didn't fancy moving it. Churned me out this plan/image. A bit of discrepancies with its own drawings - seems to be 2 different roof options etc -...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Came back from work the same night as it got cancelled. Means we went out today aswell as me getting them last 2 slabs down. Just checked and they're the British Standard/Council types at 42kg a pop. So really pleased my back remains intact (and extremely thankful to God above). Anyway, dry mix...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Anyway, not got much done and now at work for the night shifts. So... Got 2 or 3 more slabs down between the few hours I managed to get in the last couple days. Knee twitched a bit yesterday but so far so good. Cleared out alot of the shed but then the big teddy I reside with, chucked out a...
  10. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    I actually have my mate Ali who rents out scaffold (don't ask, he's the accidental builder and I manage to sometimes confirm plans with him nicely). I should be able to get a good few lengths off of him. I will be rolling it uphill! Then somehow twisting it 90 degrees so the door is accessible...
  11. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Aha. Good point there sir. But I suppose I'll need to get underneath anyway and I've strengthened (with racking from CSL type lengths) along the sides. Good wood all round inside so I'm hopeful it will pass the lift. Roof also made out of 22mm tongue and groove so I'm really really hopeful...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Aha, yes I get you now. Moving the gate is well down the line 'eventually'. Building on the boundary line, plans re-magined (there will be alot of this replanning going on, thanks to this thread 😆) and I'll ensure there is a >1m gap which leaves just about enough for access and not needing to...
  13. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    This sounds like really good information Lons. But, I don't understand what you mean 🫣
  14. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Yup, don't want none of this. Just want to make my shed bigger with minimal hassle etc.
  15. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Not really. Just get through without too much hassle 😆
  16. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Mike, thats great input as always. I think I originally learnt about the roof/water/slope thing from one of your threads and its always racked my brain about how to close up a roof without going over boundary and slope towards my garden. Ceding out a bit of land sounds fantastic (exaggerated...
  17. shafiq

    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Not sure if this gives better representation. 1. Newly moved plum tree from below 'no3'. This is in its 3rd year and given fruits once. Trying not to kill it off so must be careful. 2. The work in progress with addition of a frontal area to the current shed. Also being extended to the right by...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    Plan (ever changing) continue working was to continue working around this one and eventually hoping that it will be incorporated/amalgamated into the new one. Problem with moving this existing one as it is towards that fence is that, its now a knackered fence. Seems rot got into some of the...
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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    May as well put down this little project here into words. Basically I'm planning to increase the footprint, but budget is limited. A few 'must haves' and a few 'could do with' items on the list. Which hopefully will make themselves apparent as I get along. No specific plan in mind, just a loose...
  20. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    @dukeit just occurred to me that my laughing face might get taken incorrectly. I wasn't laughing at the fact I was asked if I had a drawing. I was just thinking at how terrible my stick drawings are these days and how to jot whats in my brain down on paper. Anyway, still a few niggles going on...
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