Shed/Cabin

Still a work in progress, it's more finished than unfinished.

Cladding continued...

Although time consuming the cladding is giving the shed a more completed look. I'll be painting the whole thing black when all the cladding is on, except the window frames and door of course, which incidentally is in its design stage, hope to have it on by the end of next month.



I'm using some recycled cladding mixed in with the new stuff so as not to waste it, looks quite nice though, put it round one of the windows and down the left side wall.



Below shows a detail of the waterproof seal I applied to all the windows.

Fitted fascia boards 2nd Sept 07

Preserved boards with black preservative and fitted to ends of roof beams. Roof is now ready for guttering... need to find a waterbutt.

Roof phase three - August 25th

My brother came up the plot with me to finish fitting the roof, he'd made some lovely zinc drips and used three layers of felt - underlay, green mineral felt and the final torch on layer.





We are now officially waterproof.

View of shed - 5th May

Started fitting cladding

So I wrapped slaters felt around the outside of shed walls, then started the long process of cladding. Haven't decided yet whether to paint the cladding black or leave it as it is.

Fitted windows

Way back last year I found lots of aluminium framed windows. I took the frames off and designed 5 wooden window frames, to fit the glass, for the shed. Started fitting them properly May 5th and using a sealant around outside between the frame and felt, waterproofed it from the elements.

View from inside the shed/Cabin

Made the final wall

Sunday 22nd April built final wall, a short window wall next to doorway.

My brother the roofer

Lester Scully, highly skilled roofer and general manager of all he surveys.

Phase two - roof goes up

Saturday 21st April -Fitting the OSB. Fixed two tarpaulin's to roof as a temporary waterproofing until the felt can be added.

Raise high the roof beam carpenters

Cut and fitted roof joists, notching them in at the back, allowing for a gentle pitch. It looked so lovely looking through the rafters at the blue sky, seemed a shame to put a lid on it but needs must, besides hardly a practical shed with no cover!

The day the walls went up

Friday 20th April, got Peter and George to help me lift the back and side wall, the rest went up sweet as you like. Very exciting, the culmination of lots of hard graft.

Back wall

27.03.07 Made frame 2100x3600, fitted 11mm OSB on back and next stage is bitumen felt to protect it from the elements. As I'll never see the back of the back wall, there's no need to make it look lovely, as long as its water tight, thats all that maters.

Fitted workshop floor

26.03.07 First day working on the workshop/cabin/art studio/shed of dreams, since before Christmas. Took the covers off, everything was dry, fitted underlay as a vapour membrane and laid panels and oak porch flooring.

Covered up with tarp for the night

Pea shingle drainage and last posts go in

Cementing in the base blocks

Started cutting and fitting the noggins

Building the base frame

Concreted the 4 back posts