Shed Project Adelaide

[MKTL]

Hello there,

Been lurking for a long time whilst the shed and backyard slowly progressed.
Bought a 1930 bungalow about 4 years ago and took 2 years to renovate the house from top to bottom.

Started on the backyard about a year ago. First job was demolishing the rotten old shed and a bit of backyard clean up. Shed is going to be 14m x 7m. Walls are 3m and tip of the ridge is 5m.

Backyard with old shed demolished.



Access to the backyard is a bit of an issue.


Old pathway to end of backyard.




Preparing base for shed / garage.


Neighbours shed.






Pad finished for concrete.

 

[MKTL]

Concrete pad for shed.



Double reo and about 175mm min thickness.




The boys doing the concrete




Burnishing the concrete.

 

[MKTL]

Sorting the backyard. I have OCD issues so the lawn had to be completely level.
Spent almost 2 months levelling the base using a laser level, 6m lengths of aluminium rectangular section and a lot of sweat. Also added Grass-Cel under the lawn on the left to act as a hidden driveway so it does not sink when cars are driven into the shed.

Took off 100mm from the old top soil.










Sprinkler system going in.


Buried aluminium for screeding the topsoil.




Driveway base being prepped before the Grass-Cel.






Grass-Cel


Grass-Cel driveway




Filling in the Grass-Cell voids with topsoil.


Nearly there.


Male Sterile Kikuyu - a favorite in our climate.


First roll down.






All done.

 

[MKTL]

Part 3 was redoing the old fence.
The backyards look very cool without fences. Im quite lucky my neighbours are really cool and the new fences went in without a hitch.







Fence in.

 

[gazza]

Looks great, keep on with the pics

 

[MKTL]

Finally the part that matters.
The shed!



















The shed looking from my neighbour's yard.




Insulated with 8mm Insulbreak foam

 

[MKTL]

Currently waiting for the 2 roller doors before the floor is painted.
Going to used Basf Mastertop 1080 in Koala Grey.

Also laser cutting aluminium sheet to seal the bottom of the sheets to the slab.

 

[HOTFR8]

Looking good. Did you have to pump the concrete from the street to do the base for the shed ?

 

[anth]

Everything about this is amazing, especially that lawn. What are you planning on doing in the shed, do you have any project cars?

I'm not sure if you're aware of Retroseal/Vermaseal? A couple of the guys here put me on to it, it's a great way of sealing the bottoms of colorbond sheds.

http://shedblog.com.au/retroseal-domestic/

 

[MKTL]

@ HOTFR8, yes sir we had to pump the concrete. They made a bit of a mess on the street but cleaned up ok.

@anth, thank you - it was a lot of hard work from me and the missus. The shed will house the S2000 that you see in the other photos and an old merc. S2000 is an ongoing track project. Yes I know of vermaseal but I dont think they do my sheet pattern - also the laser cutting was relatively cheap.

 

[Jacko]

wow. impressive project.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Awesome job, well done.

Looking forward to your next installment.

Regards

 

[ajohno]

Fantastic job well done.
Look forward to seeing what you will do next.

 

[HOTFR8]

@ HOTFR8, yes sir we had to pump the concrete. They made a bit of a mess on the street but cleaned up ok.

Would have been interesting to see.

 

[quad]

Very cool project! This is going to turn out great!

 

[Playwme]

Forgive my language but "F@&k Yeah!"

 

[hewey]

Nice build, love the attention to detail in the lawn work.

 

[grease_monkey]

Awesome work!

 

[norwal42]

Wow, nice work. Very thorough, top notch across the board. If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd be interested to know ballpark budget for each portion of the project - especially concrete pad and garage. I'd like to tackle a ground up garage build and backyard redesign at some point. Thanks for sharing!

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[pablo94sc]

I'm really digging the grass driveway. That's such an awesome feature.

 

[ScottsRX]

Great to see another Adelaide shed. Nice work on the slab, thats a serious amount of concrete for a shed in the burbs. And a great sized backyard.

I've used that **** before on a previous lawn. It's fantastic for the warm climate and doesn't need a lot of water.

 

[MKTL]

Update:

Got the aluminium laser cut pieces to "seal" the shed.





Getting ready to paint the floor - pressure washed the concrete and used a Jetfire to help expedite the drying. Used 4x 9kg BBQ gas cylinders. It was a balmy 28deg inside the shed when we started to paint the floor with Mastertop 1080 Koala Grey.



Epoxy Express!
The first coat was very challenging - read on.
Mixed part A with the colour, easy - make sure to use drill with mixer.
Mixed part B into Part B - looking good.
My friend started cutting in whilst I started rolling, only had one roller going (BIG MISTAKE!).
He finished cutting in around 30m after the mixing and just stood around whilst I rolled.
At about the 1h 30m mark, the rolling got quite hard and bits of roller started coming off - I was about 80% thru the floor at this stage.
He took over at 1h 45m and it was near impossible. We gave up at about 2h with 90% of the floor covered. I was devastated after all the prep work.

Lessons learnt - average person does 50sqm an hour, I had 100sqm, pot life of 1.5h, the maths simply didn't work.

Coat #2
Let the epoxy go off for 24hr (18h to 36h recoat window) and surveyed the disaster.
It was not so bad after all - went through the whole floor with a razor scraper and took off all the lumpy bits. Then I swept and vacumed the floor.
My mate came around and we started on coat#2 with 2 rollers and it worked a treat.
We finished the whole floor in an hr.

Being the pedantic person that I am, I wanted to make sure that the floor at the worst had 2 coats - so decided to do coat #3 this morning so that the last 10% from coat #1 had at least 2 coats.

End Result!



Next up the aluminium strips and shelves.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Far out thats one nice job.

You have got to be pleased with the end result, well done.

Luv the seals, were they expensive??


Regards

 

[MKTL]

1/2 Cup, thanks it was a bit stressful after coat #1.
The "seals" were done by a mate of mine, worked out to be $5.50/m.
I drew them up and he cut them on his laser cutter.

 

[spectral]

Great job on the floor and grass driveway in particular!

 

[1/2 Cup]

1/2 Cup, thanks it was a bit stressful after coat #1.
The "seals" were done by a mate of mine, worked out to be $5.50/m.
I drew them up and he cut them on his laser cutter.

Done well

An innovative solution...

 

[ajohno]

Top job on everything. Well done.

 

[metalhead140]

Wow, very impressive all round! How much did the floor epoxy set you back? That lawn is amazing (from someone who has never had the patience to have a nice lawn)!

 

[HOTFR8]

That edging looks fantastic. What gave you the idea for that? The floor sure looks great but I can see the work painting must have given you some grief.

 

[anth]

Wow, everything looks very high quality, from top to bottom.

 

[dillon]

Great job, good size for a backyard shed.
Nice to see another aussie contributing here

 

[Giddyup]

That is an amazing set up.... love the grass drive way....
The only thing that beats the smell of a new car is the smell of a new garage.....
Great work

 

[MKTL]

Thanks for all the feedback.
@metalhead140 - the epoxy from BASF was just under $500 per 20L pack, so it was not the cheapest option.
@HOTFR8 - with the "seal" I wanted it to follow the sheet metal and attach to the concrete so it will be stable. Necessity is the mother of invention I guess.

Looking at longspan shelves and pallet racking. Any suggestions?
Thanks

 

[MKTL]

Update:

Some things in life just are there to just test you!!!

After painting the floor, the shed remained sealed for a week - unbeknown to me the epoxy was still soft. So I took all the tarps off after the week and then left the shed closed for 4 weeks.

On the 5th week, I open the shed for an inspection and I was devastated.



Argh!

After 30mins of scrubbing with rags and various combinations of cleaners.



The rollerdoor was not fully sealed on one corner and as a result let water in during the rain.

Hair was being pulled out at a rapid rate of knots - along came the better half with a super idea. She said "Stop being so pedantic - after everything is installed I'm sure you are going to recoat the floor anyway" - yep thats what i'll do.

So then I put the setback behind and started with moving things in.
First up the track hack.



Got some longspan shelves and benches from Unirack. Resonably priced and came in grey.











Next step - install Aluminium seal strips over the long weekend.

 

[HOTFR8]

It is just a floor and I am sure another coat later will fix it. If you had not mentioned it I would have said it is looking pretty good and you know it is looking pretty good.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Boy does your garage look sweet.

Agree, another coat later will do the trick.

Regards

 

[MKTL]

HOTFR8, 1/2 Cup - thanks for the words of encouragement. Hopefully will get a bit of work down this weekend. The whole of October is a write-off with work.

 

[MKTL]

Long overdue update.
Wiring is done. Just need to tidy up the wires.





LED battens are in. Used Haneco 40W.





Gumtree special is also in and running. Leaking a little and a bit noisy. Might need to upgrade in the near future.




Next in line is install the Nussbaum hoist and mezzanine.



Work has been so busy so progress has been snail paced.

 

[HOTFR8]

Yes long over due. Looking good. I like the use of the 4 outlet power points.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Many thanks for the update.

Looks great with the lighting completed, plus a hoist. Well done.