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Thanks, getting there. Will be awesome to be able to get into the shed and start moving stuff in.

Forgot to post some stuff last week, but there has been good progress on the deck and workshop. First up i went and bought out all the merbau decking from my local HammerBarn Then laid down the decking protection tape/rubber stuff: Add a guide plank and then build up the border: Then cut...

Thanks. I feel like i need a Gantt chart at times to figure out what to do next, and which bits are blocking projects. The yard should come together well, but overall its a bit of an interim setup. We are expecting to do an extension in about 5-6 years, at which point we will probably redo the...

True to form on Saturday i got stuck in and did a ton of painting, which is boring, so I didnt take photos. But some friends came around for the first time since our COVID lockdown finished, so we built the kids cubby and then had wood fired pizzas around the fire pit. Much win. Plus tinkered...

Thanks, just try to do most stuff. For the guttering i was planning on squeezing some standard quad profile gutter in between the workshop and garage and then plumbing that into the existing downpipe from the garage. But its a bit too tight for that, so ill be going with option B which is a...

In the middle of last week the steel got delivered for the portal frame, so i got to work on getting it up. The deep cut bandsaw made quick work of slicing up the 8m length into manageable pieces: Then it was mocked up in place: And welded in situ: The steel there is 75x75x5 SHS, so...

Whoah, that is a massive shift. Was wondering how you were fitting so much stuff over in the west. But looks good up around Canberra.

No probs. Should say if its just for a garden shed the flatpack kits are probably better value for just storing stuff. As a workshop though, this is a better option for us.

I kind of did, but mainly worked from the costings for the other shed. Its a lot cheaper all around. Simple tin shed kits are about $600-1000 for this, but they are flimsy and not great for workshops. A proper timber shed or decent thickness portal shed are about $2500-3000, and this will come...

The tin sheeting for the workshop finally arrived late last week, so in the interest of not fornicating with arachnids i got stuck into getting the frames up: Sheeted up the existing frames: Then after some wrangling i bolted the two obscured frames in place: Three M12 ankabolts in each...

Valves. Adding oil doesn’t yield any significant compression increase. Will add it to the list of things to do after the workshop and deck are built.

So... one of these is not like the others...

Oh and i got a chance to work on the Hilux again. Not much has been happening with it due to needing it for moving and building stuff. The back seat is now full of gear to go into the tray eventually though. But on the weekend i did disrespect one of the few non-rooted panels on the car. Enter...

So last weekend i ended up replacing the fence panels that wouldnt be easily accessible. The old one was pretty rotted and haggard, with one of the posts having rotted mostly through. Down it came: Surprisingly none of the posts were concreted in at all, just dumped into bare earth: Replaced...

Ta, getting there. Managed to get the lower course of brickwork down on the weekend, forgotten how much i hate brick laying, and my back hates me now too: Then got to put some coats of paint on the garage and played with the kids. Does look a lot better with 4 fresh coats on it: Roofing and...

Carpenters pencils are great if you are doing carpentry. Big enough lead to make decent marks on rough sawn timber with reasonable durability, and critically not round so it doesnt roll off the roof joist you are installing.

Took advantage of a cashback sale on the weekend, might have got a bit more than planned:

So after a couple of weeks of waiting for suitable weather and the like we got started on the slab. First bit was to backfill and bring it up to level as some parts were significantly low, 150mm board for height reference: But we got there in the end: Then the damn thing settled with some...

I use these, not over glasses, but they are super comfortable.

I did a bit of a hybrid job on my floor standing drill press: Basically built a cabinet that can be lifted off the base and stored all the bits and stuff in there. Its not as storage friendly as the bigger cabinets (or my new mill cabinet), but it was very workable, especially when i needed to...