The Saga of The She Shed

For what has felt like a very long time nothing happened with regards to the shed. By The Shed I mean the smallest shed on the block with a door far to small for a Landy to get through, my shed for spinning, weaving, and loads of other fun stuff.... I digress... There was a delay from the suppliers - apparently trying to catch up with a back log of orders from their Xmas break.

Eventually planning permission was granted and one sunny morning in late March a rumbling of UTE engines heralded the arrival of David The Shed and his merry band of men. They finished leveling the site and built the frame work of the pouring of the concrete slab, which had been arranged for the following day.

The thoroughly leveled site was leveled a wee bit more before the boards went down ready for the concrete base to be poured.

A huge and deep hole for the 'post holders' to go in. This shed is not going anywhere and we believe will with stand hurricane force winds!

Already and the rain clouds were a gathering....

Finally the base was poured and rain stopped play for a good week while we all waited patiently for it to dry. Dave and team worked really hard making sure the base was a smooth as possible.

The shed arrived and we soon spotted the deliberate mistake. As you can see the holes don't match where the bolts are! A few phone calls later and the manufacturers promised to machine some more posts and ship them down over night. What's another day in the great scheme of things...

And then suddenly it all started to take shape.

Spaces were cut into the frame for our recycled windows courtesy of Kilarney Beach House. Many thanks to Monica and Gary for letting us have them and to Deb, Fred and Rick for the adventure of picking them up.

 Windows in and walls starting to go up..... and thankfully more sunny weather promised.

And here it is one very smart and well insulated girls shed.

Our lovely neighbour Leon gave us the heads up about lining the shed with 'covers' which are used to cover melamine for protection during transit from the manufacturers to our local cabinet makers. They have so many they normally dump them and so are quite relieved when people actually want them and usually offer them free of charge.

I wanted to put in extra insulation to make everything more cosy in the winter and cooler in the hot summer months. 

The covers we have used for lining the walls of my shed.

 First lot of pink batts in and Rick making the first cut on the covers. We (well technically Rick) put in top hat sections to attach the covers to. I did the insulation and made cups of tea. The things were so heavy to lift I'm not sure if I was more of a hindrance than a help when it came to moving them. I have found it really doesn't help if you get the giggles when trying to lift the damn things.

The electrics have now been done and much to my delight I found you can now get LED strip lighting. I went for as close to daylight as you can get and boy is it bright in there.

For a while the shed will be an on going project, lining the ceiling with 3 mm plywood is not quite as easy as we first thought and we seem to be very good at finding other  'urgent' jobs to do. It will all be done in the fullness of time I'm sure. At the moment it is a very pleasant space to be in.