Ruffgeezer
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So quite a lot has changed since I last visited GJ regularly, we've moved away from the room with a moo and have been in the new place some 3 years now. The new pad is only 1/4 mile down the road from our old one, we'd got the paperwork in place to extend the old house but this one came on the market a day later - it was a no-brainer really, an extra bedroom a seperate office and a garage with seperate workshop and some potential behind it...
It started as two sheds and a shanty shack very loosely attached to the fence. These were built behind the current garage & workshop:
It doesn't look terrible here, but it leaked like a sieve and nothing inside ever really dried properly after heavy rain.
This is looking from the back of the carport/shed lash up through into the double garage which will provide vehicular access to the new workshop.
This is the view from the brick built garage through the carport and looking at the generator hut on the right - I sold the generator a year back as we just don't see power outages regularly enough to warrant it.
The little Citroen Ax has been secreted elsewhere to create a through route for the demolished sheds and the new garage panels.
There were 3 roofs here, the one on the carport and 2 over the sheds, most was third hand corrugated steel sheets. Heavy work to remove, but a glimpse at the available space.
All the shed walls were double clad, this is the back of the woodshed knocked through to the car port.
Any tin I couldn't fit in my Berlingo van was left out for the scrap man, he was an ******* who didn't turn up so an enterprising pensioner came and relieved me of the responsibility. Ordinarily I'd have weighed it in myself, but time was short on the delievery of the new building.
The skeletal remains of the sheds, the roof sheet in the background is roughly where the blue bike was leant in the picture further up. There is a lot of heavy timber here which is full of nails, so I have wombled it away so that I can re-use it later to line out the new workshop. Anything I couldn't use went to a neighbour whose house is heated entirely on wood.
Each time I built up a load of timber, the little Berlingo Van was filled and taken to the neighbour whose whole property runs on a wood fired boiler, he is always happy to take any old timber, well apart from the bits that had been soaked in creosote!
Of course nothing is ever simple, the fence that was supporting the roof was very well attached to 3 very rotten fence posts, as the fence is only temporary, i sistered in 3 new posts on the other side of the fence, but had to leave part of the roof structure up until I could do so.
Lastly the slabs are now just about clear for the delivery on Sunday, I've just to knock a few bits of old mortar off where the dwarf walls were, and still need repair the retaining wall at the back. The wall is built out of some cinder blocks that crumble as soon as you look at them.
It started as two sheds and a shanty shack very loosely attached to the fence. These were built behind the current garage & workshop:
It doesn't look terrible here, but it leaked like a sieve and nothing inside ever really dried properly after heavy rain.
This is looking from the back of the carport/shed lash up through into the double garage which will provide vehicular access to the new workshop.
This is the view from the brick built garage through the carport and looking at the generator hut on the right - I sold the generator a year back as we just don't see power outages regularly enough to warrant it.
The little Citroen Ax has been secreted elsewhere to create a through route for the demolished sheds and the new garage panels.
There were 3 roofs here, the one on the carport and 2 over the sheds, most was third hand corrugated steel sheets. Heavy work to remove, but a glimpse at the available space.
All the shed walls were double clad, this is the back of the woodshed knocked through to the car port.
Any tin I couldn't fit in my Berlingo van was left out for the scrap man, he was an ******* who didn't turn up so an enterprising pensioner came and relieved me of the responsibility. Ordinarily I'd have weighed it in myself, but time was short on the delievery of the new building.
The skeletal remains of the sheds, the roof sheet in the background is roughly where the blue bike was leant in the picture further up. There is a lot of heavy timber here which is full of nails, so I have wombled it away so that I can re-use it later to line out the new workshop. Anything I couldn't use went to a neighbour whose house is heated entirely on wood.
Each time I built up a load of timber, the little Berlingo Van was filled and taken to the neighbour whose whole property runs on a wood fired boiler, he is always happy to take any old timber, well apart from the bits that had been soaked in creosote!
Of course nothing is ever simple, the fence that was supporting the roof was very well attached to 3 very rotten fence posts, as the fence is only temporary, i sistered in 3 new posts on the other side of the fence, but had to leave part of the roof structure up until I could do so.
Lastly the slabs are now just about clear for the delivery on Sunday, I've just to knock a few bits of old mortar off where the dwarf walls were, and still need repair the retaining wall at the back. The wall is built out of some cinder blocks that crumble as soon as you look at them.
