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This weekend saw it almost finished... doors hung & panelled, shiplap fitted around the door frame & gable

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Before it rained today we managed to get the ridge fitted, well half of it actually because we only had three pieces... need another three to finish it...

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A wet day today left us a bit restricted... we only managed to get the other side door made (from the roof of the old shed) & hung & the smaller of the two windows fitted.
We did take the opportunity of clearing up & a trailer load of off-cuts & a few bags of general rubbish went to the recycling centre...

One thing we did notice after loading some wood into the roof space last week was that the trusses we made might not be too over-engineered! We decided to restrict the storage in the roof to light stuff only!

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Really good progress this weekend... the roof is on, the awning (over the bikes in the lower picture) is done. The cladding is almost finished (using the old shed, which is now dismantled & removed).One of the side doors doors is hung. The interior now has shelves, tools have racks, motorcycle parts are being sorted...
Krys is confused as he can now find things too easily!
Jobs to do: ridge; vehicle doors; side door (x1); cladding to side & front (around vehicle doors); find glass; window cills, guttering, rainwater collection....

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We took full advantage of the weather this week... and the time off work! to make some serious progress...

The roof trusses we put up last year now re-positioned to accomodate the change in roof cladding material (the original idea was to board & felt the roof, but cost & the need for a guaranteed run of good weather to get it all done in one hit meant we had to re-think... after much searching & thinking, the winner turrned out to be corrugated iron from a local salvage yard... Site Salvage, in Sandwich)

The corrugated iron had to be cut to length with an angle grinder...

....& fixed with galvanised spring head nails

Almost finished.... we decided to take advantage of the fact that five sheets were 10ft long and make an awning off the side of the building at one end...





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Things moved on a bit quicker this weekend, thanks mainly to £24 worth of wood for the roof trusses. Saturday afternoon saw us making up the remaining six trusses on top of the original one which we'd kept aside as a pattern. As they were made up, we lifted them into position. Once they were all in place, we worked out the spacing (33" centres) & cut the "rafters" to length, 60 in all are required... after a bit of hunting around we'eve almost got enough!
Sunday saw these cut to length & screwed in position, starting at the door end. Due to a change in roofing material, (we are now planning to use corrugated iron)  we will require fewer roof trusses, which will mean we will have to re-position the four we installed last year...
Sunday afternoon we were visited by a local phesant!

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The end is now slowly taking shape & becoming more weatherproof, this afternoon we fitted some cladding above the windows, as well as the window cill. It was a nice aftertnoon, but the boards kept splitting!

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Limited progress this afternoon, but at least we managed to do something today, the first time for several weeks... You'll have to look closely, but the cladding either side of the windows was the main achievemnet of the afternoon!
The tractor now runs, but has a hole in the float!

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Another on-going project is a garage/workshop at the bottom of my son's garden. They were lucky in that the previous owner had laid a concrete slab which was just asking for something to be built on it! For ease & speed of construction we opted for a timber frame prefabricated in sections & errected on a dwarf wall three courses high.

There was another criteria it had to meet... the cost had to be as close to zero as humanly possible!

Bricks & glass (frecycle), sand/cement (damaged bags from DIY stores), studs & plates (either factory waste or recovered & comb-joined, 50p/m) cladding f/edge boards (recycled from pallets & existing shed) roof material TBA... corrugated iron?

This morning we made the most of the wearther & started fixing the cladding on the long side... got half way up...