New workshop build

[Tonytygwyn]

Very nice indeed...

 

[ollied1981]

The outside cladding is on order but is taking a while to come so thought I'd move some stuff in. Moving the lathe from my mum's was quite an operation that required borrowing a trailer, making a trolley and a lot of brute force:

But we managed in the end and nothing got broke.
Next up was making a bench. A friend had some spare 50x50 box section so a day with the MIG produced this:

I got some inch thick ply for the surface, it seems a bit too nice for a bench top really!

Current intermediate project until the cladding turns up is modifying the compressor to rubber-mount the motor and the pump isolating them from the receiver. Hopefully along with some intake modifications this will help to quieten it down because it's pretty loud as it is!

 

[Claymore]

Superb build Ollie and better built than our home! now its nearing completion what sort of things do you make with the lathe etc?
Cheers
Brian

 

[ollied1981]

Hi Claymore,
All sorts of things really...I used to have a pretty big offroad buggy that I built in my mum's garage, but these days it's normally smaller bits and pieces for the bike. I made a couple of compressed air motors and that was quite fun.

So the cladding finally turned up, and at 5.1m long an inventive storage solution was necessary:

I went for one nail across the width of the board as people have suggested to hopefully stop the boards splitting when they shrink. The shiplap is all pressure treated and I used Ensele cut end preserver, but I'll probably paint it with some kind of water repellent after it's all weathered for a couple of months.

So now the shed is essentially complete it's time to tidy up the surrounding mess in the garden. Everywhere the other side of the edging will be filled with gravel. Mixing concrete by hand is hard work...

 

[Mainman]

That's a great looking shed Ollie. I really enjoyed reading the WIP. Without been too nosey could I ask approx how much it came in at. I am hoping to move in the next 6 months and hopefully will have the space to build myself a nice new workshop. I am really inspired by all the workshop builds and just a tad jealous.

Thanks Bernard

 

[ollied1981]

Hi Bernard,
I can do better than that, I kept track of the cost and don't mind sharing it:

concrete 300
rebar mesh 60
shuttering timber 30
dpm 30
frame timber 280
door and windows 150
sheathing osb 155
screws 50
roof deck+firings 150
breather membrane 35
insulation 195
inside paint / floor paint 60
corrugated steel 220
epdm kit 290
fasica boards 50
gutters 35
electrics 200
shiplap cladding 170

Which comes to £2460. There were definitely some small items that I didn't count, but on the other hand I've got enough left over materials to build a small logstore type structure for keeping a chimnea/wheelbarrow etc under.

I could have put a sectional concrete building up for about the same price, but it would have been damp, had no insulation, and they look rubbish. Plus I wouldn't have had the fun of building it!

 

[joscott10]

I'm contemplating renovating an existing shed using this construction. How did you attach the battens for the cladding without puncturing the breathable membrane (or is it not a problem to nail through it)?