The wedding & honeymoon plans are coming along nicely, which translates as "All I've had to do is fork out $5000 and relax!" ;-)
I spent most of my weekend building shelving along the back wall of my "new" shed. Here's a pic of it a few months ago so that you have an idea of how it looks:
The shelving runs the entire length of the back wall 6m(20'), 4 shelves at approximately 500mm(19") centres, 2m(6'6") tall, and 600mm(2') deep. I made all of the framework out of old pallets that I retrieved from behind some shops where I park at work, so the total cost was about $10 for nails.
And the best part was that in 1 1/2 days of flogging away at timber with a hammer, I only mashed my thumb ONCE! (Although I did do a good job of it when it happened, and had quite a few things to say. Well, OK, it was basically a lot of repetitions of the same word...)
A mate dropped by on Sunday afternoon to have a look at some roofing tin and timbers that I have stockpiled, since he needs to build a fairly large shed quickly (and, needless to say, cheaply). Since he's a motorcycle mechanic and I'm sick to death of performing motorcycle maintenance, a barter deal seems likely. I've spent a bit of time on a design for him, it'll be a flat-roof pole structure with 3.5 degree pitch on the roof, 12m wide by 8m deep by 3.1m tall on the high side. The numbers I've done for the required additional timber, nails, bolts, screws, joist hangers, etc. comes to about $1000, which still seems like a bit of a bargain for a 100-square-metre shed, (admittedly with a dirt floor).
Side and front views:
Top view:
Key: white=poles, light blue=10"x2", dark blue=6"x2", purple=3"x2"
Structures like this look pretty flimsy, but once you put walls on them they tighten up quite well (and having 12 posts each 1m deep in the ground keeps them pretty firmly in place, too!)
So we'll be off into the scrub on my neighbour's place this weekend playing lumberjack. I'm going to miss this lifestyle...
BTH
