I’m in awe and I must confess, envious of your build my friend. I hope it continues on a trouble free road.
Taking photos to remind yourself of the journey is a good idea.
All the best 👍
Another vote from DeWalt from me and the new Powerstack batteries offer more power at a lower weight. Have replaced a 5Ah unit with a 3Ah Powerstack on an SDS drill with no appreciable loss of oomph or run time
And so finally I was able to set to with the garage conversion.
For speed and cost I decided on 2” x 3” C16 joists for the walls and frame and C24 for the flooring. Frame fixed to the bricks and concrete.
Fortunately whoever built the garage originally had the foresight to install a DPM under...
Next step was decluttering the garage from boring but necessary gardening tools and 6 year old tins of solid paint…
Mostly moved to the new shed as below
So as you can clearly see, neither garage nor conversion. However in order to satisfy the CFO thus enabling the garage conversion, certain obligations had to first be met.
Don’t hate on the kit form pergola, it was almost cheaper than just the felt 👍😂
I use the company below, online subsidiary of Cleveland cables.
Pricing is normally very keen
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