PeteG
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After a very long wait, and as long as it doesn't pour down, the new roof will be going on Thursday afternoon. I started clearing space weekend before last, taking lots of junk down to the tip.
There was some old wooden shelving and metal racking the previous house owner must have built 30-40 years ago. The garage is an old pillar and post, and whilst it is a little tired looking,
it's very sound. You can see day light through the roof in a couple of places, but the floor has always remained dry. That was until last weekend. Hopefully some mastic/sealant should put it right.
Last weekend I decided to be a little brutal with other items, determind to have as much working space as possible. I photographed two bikes, a bike stand, clothes rails, dumbbells, and camera bag
I'd bought in the mid 90's. I put everything on Gumtree, and by Sunday night the lot had gone. All collected by the buyers, except the clothes railes which I delivered for a young couple not more than a mile away.
Monday afternoon I receive a text message saying the roof will be fitted Wednesday or Thursday. I rush home from work and head straight for the garage, armed with a good brew and a packet of Jammy Dodgers.
First thing on the list is to remove all the old wiring, sockets and light switches, but leaving two sockets, one for the freezer and the other for any electric tools that may be required. There's also four,
four foot long fluorescent lights which are suspended on poles resting on the metal "A" frames, and one really heavy light being held up on chains. Four of the ligts are taken down leaving one was a work light.
The next job is cleaning the rusty "A" frames, which I'd planned to do with a pneumatic angle grinder fitted with a round wire brush. I bought the angle grinder with the money from the camera bag and clothes rails.
Twenty minutes in and the bloody thing stopped working! It had been oiled, and I was working at the correct PSI, but all the life in it had left. Plan "B"...Out came the grit blaster and a bag of kiln dried sand.
This is another first for me, never used one before, and I won't be using one again, as tonight, that bloody thing stopped working too. I'd only been an hour since I'd taken the angle grinder back to Machine Mart.
Still, it's all good fun, I was covered in all manner of nasties including a lot of dead spiders and cob webs that we blown or blasted out of all the nooks and crannies...I doubt I'll have time to paint the "A" frames before
the roof goes up, but at least they are now a little cleaner. I was planning on spraying them, but as the spray gun is also from Machine Mart, I have my doubts. I'll have a go and hope for the best.
Here's a few images to get the ball rolling, and hopefully I'll have some of the new roof later on today.
There was some old wooden shelving and metal racking the previous house owner must have built 30-40 years ago. The garage is an old pillar and post, and whilst it is a little tired looking,
it's very sound. You can see day light through the roof in a couple of places, but the floor has always remained dry. That was until last weekend. Hopefully some mastic/sealant should put it right.
Last weekend I decided to be a little brutal with other items, determind to have as much working space as possible. I photographed two bikes, a bike stand, clothes rails, dumbbells, and camera bag
I'd bought in the mid 90's. I put everything on Gumtree, and by Sunday night the lot had gone. All collected by the buyers, except the clothes railes which I delivered for a young couple not more than a mile away.
Monday afternoon I receive a text message saying the roof will be fitted Wednesday or Thursday. I rush home from work and head straight for the garage, armed with a good brew and a packet of Jammy Dodgers.
First thing on the list is to remove all the old wiring, sockets and light switches, but leaving two sockets, one for the freezer and the other for any electric tools that may be required. There's also four,
four foot long fluorescent lights which are suspended on poles resting on the metal "A" frames, and one really heavy light being held up on chains. Four of the ligts are taken down leaving one was a work light.
The next job is cleaning the rusty "A" frames, which I'd planned to do with a pneumatic angle grinder fitted with a round wire brush. I bought the angle grinder with the money from the camera bag and clothes rails.
Twenty minutes in and the bloody thing stopped working! It had been oiled, and I was working at the correct PSI, but all the life in it had left. Plan "B"...Out came the grit blaster and a bag of kiln dried sand.
This is another first for me, never used one before, and I won't be using one again, as tonight, that bloody thing stopped working too. I'd only been an hour since I'd taken the angle grinder back to Machine Mart.
Still, it's all good fun, I was covered in all manner of nasties including a lot of dead spiders and cob webs that we blown or blasted out of all the nooks and crannies...I doubt I'll have time to paint the "A" frames before
the roof goes up, but at least they are now a little cleaner. I was planning on spraying them, but as the spray gun is also from Machine Mart, I have my doubts. I'll have a go and hope for the best.
Here's a few images to get the ball rolling, and hopefully I'll have some of the new roof later on today.
