Recent content by Marvin Thighblaster

We were financially settled a couple of months ago and since then I've been working with my wife to work out what we're going to do. Most likely we won't start planning/construction until 2016-2017

Nice rig!

A fence bloke turned up first thing Saturday and threw a nice fat security fence up, which I quickly covered using that ply and left over builder's plastic to give us a bit of privacy. I then got on with the job of stripping my '62 on my own in 35deg Celsius heat - good fun! It was pretty...

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Nope. In fact, we can't get our assessor to return any phone calls, we haven't heard back from the builder or demo crew. Thoroughly over the lack of communication from Crawfords (the company handling the claim for NRMA). I'm one more unreturned phone call away from driving the 1.5hrs to their...

Hi guys, So, I'm a bit of a screw-up and started a thread on my garage before I came in here and introduced myself. Sorry! I'm Iain (that's an i not an L, BTW), I'm 31 and live an hour north of Sydney, Australia. More of my back story is in my thread...

I have learned a LOT about garage fires recently. I was told by the fire brigade it likely started with the motor of my fridge burning out, setting fire to built-up dust around it and then it getting out from there. It pays to clean everywhere in your shed and have easily accessible...

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It's been a long while since anything has happened, however we got news through today that there is FINALLY progress! The shed demolition has been approved by the insurance company so once my wife and I get the signed paperwork back to them tomorrow the process of removing the old shed begins at...

Wow that looks awesome. How high are the eaves? What's the floorspace?

That bench is great. Nice and heavy, solid and dependable :)

Killer build. 50 pages of awesomeness!

I actually got in and started cleaning some stuff out of the shed today. 99% of my tools aren't salvageable but I found some odd spanners, screwdrivers, pliers and the like which only partially melted. As they've been sitting in the shed since the fire, through some pretty big rain storms...