Sheppz garden / shed

Nah - I only bought 2 no. 4.8m joists so 2.4m - minus a little back overhang and it is what it is (3o0 or so). Will help keep the sun off the glass in high summer noon till 3pm if i'm lucky.

Probably people might enjoy playing around with some of these. 2D sunpath is a go to - you can easily get the seasonal sun angles for different orientations, then figure out what proportion of overhang you need.
https://andrewmarsh.com/software/

V nerdy and v cool - in the past Ive geolocated a SketchUp model and used the sun shadow sliders - never convinced on accuracy tho.

Wrapped up and roof on today . Need to order more fixings. Then on to cladding. Smashing through true crime and history podcasts today . Wife asked how many more days this morning - I said 4 - she’ll double that of course - so if I do it in less than 8 I’ll be a hero.

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Lots of fiddly detail work today - figuring out how to do the corners and eaves. Going for a sort of open corner idea using two battens screwed together. Got battens on the backside too and fixed the ply sheets that will act as cladding were hidden behind the fences. I’ll need to coat them in something. Also the cat is now out and attempting to raid the robbins nest at all opportunities.

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Looking absolutely amazing.
The thresholds are looking good too.

Looking good. The corners are tops, they make it look much lighter than a big solid block on each corner. I think that would have made the whole shed look smaller. Nice.

Going for a sort of open corner idea using two battens screwed together.

Mies would be proud

Cheers all - Sunday update - all remaining corners on and have fixed the ply sheets on the fence side. Had a tidy up too. Ready to do the feather edge now.

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Cladding day 1 - happy with the results but fuck me the cheap feather edge is hard work. Lots of attention to getting everything level and consistent / lots of awkward bending and back and forth to the saw. Pre start research led me to robin clewett on YouTube - makes it look easy. Thought I’d get at least 2 sides done today but way more time consuming than anticipated.

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Hmm - cool weather + having the chop saw on the lawn and repeatedly crouching by it - then clambering around the raised bed to fix the boards - bad - put my back out. 39 tomorrow. Yay midlife decrepitude.

Next session I will re jig the workspace and have the saw on the garden table. Will also stretch before and probably have bath after. Forward planning see..:.

Looking very neat.

Did this survive the rain?

Christ - I don’t know - been at work - on way home to find out. Had the weekend off as tooo hot and needed a break. Back to cladding tomorrow.

Update - it’s nice to sit in - project fatigue has set in tho. Cladding is hardwork and quite boring. Hopefully i’ll break the back of it tomorrow and working out how to make the window and door will be more interesting.

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Looking fine. Keep at it, but remember the old project truth “90% finished, only 50% still to do” it’ll be cracking.

Cladding is hardwork

How come?

YouTube timelapses make it look so easy.

Is it that you've got two sides with quite a lot of different sized lengths, as well as a short length over all? I can imagine normally if you're using the whole length then you have fewer cuts.

These are the hardest sides as there are two openings - it’s not hard hard - just effortful and slow going measuring then cutting and fixing on loop. And yes all boards need cutting to fit regardless. Wish I had a Timelapse mode !! Am happy with the look of it tho so that’s a relief - was quite worried about using cheap fencing.

Saturday progress. Three sides clad - just the next door facing side to go. Looks like I have exactly the right number of boards. Then roof insulation and ceiling. Rear view to show sense of scale. It is pretty much exactly 2.5m from pavement level to top of roof 😬. Bonus Bubbles.

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Looks great 👏

Saw this and thought of you.
A friend is a man and van haulier and has been saving crates and odds and ends for a while.
He built this last year. The only things he paid for are the felt and sealant for the windows.

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Nice 👍

Door fiasco update. I trimmed the door lining I had on hand to suit my framing without really thinking it would mean building a bespoke door to fit. I don’t have the tools or skill to do proper mortise and tenon joints etc so I decided to make a frame in two parts - softwood inside and hardwood out and glue and pin them together. I would then rebate the internal frame to hold a 16mm sheet of polycarbonate and add a glazing bead on the outside. So far so good until I fucked up routing the rebate. Rethinking things I pivoted to a thinner sheet of polycarbonate and bought some 2x1 hardwood to act as a chunky bead. Hard to explain really but anyway - I now have a door of sorts - needs some filling, sanding , finishing and then hinges handle and latch.

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Looks good to me thumbs
But then am a sucker for a nice bit of poly’

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Door hung today.

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