Stevo's Playhouse

And a curve cut across the top

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Just the slats and finishing to go

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Looking awesome :-)

Slats

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Looks fantastic!
I'm sure the finished article with all the screw holes plugged will look even better. :-)

First coat of teak oil

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Finished

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Very cool

Road test

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Is that allowed?
Do I need to call the Kabin Kops?

Latest project. Ms_com picked up a trinket type shelf off eBay and requested it be restored. Turns out it was covered in paint, water spots and nicotine/tar so was a bastard to clean/sand. And it was kind of shoddily built in the first place. I had to pop off all the letters and the spindles to do a proper job.

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No more unplugging the wrong thing. I will probably spur another double socket off the most congested one. All the things don't get used at the same time but it's a pain plugging and unplugging.

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That little Parkside disc sander has been far more useful than I though it would be. Having a sandpaper cleaner/eraser is also a game changer.

I know you've already done your labels, but a decent quick alternative is white chalkboard markers - the type of ones that come in those lable packs.

You need two layers, but they will write on plastic sockets.

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To save plugging and unplugging in what has become the highest traffic area, I wired in another double socket as a spur off the ring. Also swapped the existing socket in this place as I couldn't get one to exactly match (had a limited time window to get this done and couldn't get to the original shop (TS) so got the same brand but different model from SF). Means I have a spare if I want to spur off one of the other doubles to make 4 sockets somewhere else and have a matching pair in that location. But I don't see that happening, yet. This spot is closest to where I keep the vac, bandsaw, pillar drill and sander. All of which can easily be used in any given project (not simultaneously, I'm usually running vac plus 'tool').

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Also, for reasons I can't fathom but am glad worked, even though I turned the RCD off for the shed sockets on the shed CU, leaving only the lighting circuit on in the shed, I still tripped the main RCD (or MCB, I may be using the wrong terminology) for the shed and the RCD for the kitchen socket circuit (shed CU has a tail that plugs into an extension lead which goes into an external socket on the kitchen socket circuit) when I started messing with the existing socket. Maybe some weird residual fuckery? Anyway, the protection all worked and turned back on with no drama. And pre-empting the pearl clutchers, power gets totally disconnected (CU tail unplugged from extension lead) when I leave the shed.

Ms_com picked up a side table from FB for £25. Went to a posh house on Burbage Road to pick it up, had a nosey online after I got home as I was curious how much the house was worth (£5.7M!!!!!). Anyway, it had been painted badly with a brush at some point in a grey/beige and ms_com wanted blue. Was only going to sand the brush marks off but the paint started flaking away so most of it had to come off. Primed then spray a sweet baby blue. Added a new handle off eBay (there wasn't one before).

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Added retractable castors to the big bench to allow me to reclaim the bigger floorspace if needed

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Workshop envy

Oh wow, if I can ever have a space half as good as this I’ll be happy, really nice work!

Now you're going too far! Really happy with how easy the big bench both goes up on the castors and rolls around.

The bench to the right of the door as you go in is identical to the one below the peg board (except the bottom shelf is at about half height). This has just become a dumping ground, which I don't want. What would be nice is to swap that out for two or three rolling cube type benches with a planer/thicknesser, router table, table saw etc.

Cheap solar PIR light from the middle of Lidl to aid locking/unlocking without holding my phone in my teeth.

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Honestly, I really like it! I might need you to help with mine as I have no idea of a layout for our workshop. Hard for it not to end up a dumping ground without all the plastic cases for individual tools but I think you’ve managed it really nicely.

That wee light is great too, is it motion sensor or just a kind of tap or push for on/off?