Shed

An outside all day day today which has been lovely. Ady and I spent the morning dismantling two huge pallets to get the wood to make reinforcement battens for the shed floor. Then we cut them to size, fixed them together and fixed them to the shed base. One super strong floor done.
That took us to lunch time so we came back up to eat and charge the drill battery back up.
After lunch we got the four sides up and the roof on, the workload of which is not remotely covered in this one sentence… 😉 I had researched sheds online a lot and found that there was little difference in the spec and reviews of sheds from the budget £229 one we went for right up to the mid range £800 plus sheds so we were probably better getting the cheap one and upgrading the hardware and modifying it, so that’s what we have done. Using our own, much better screws in far greater numbers than were supplied with the shed and putting a frame around it to support it, trying down the roof and super strengthening the floor.
Tomorrow we will felt the roof and do some other modifications to it, I have ordered the green wood preserver and we have lots of cool ideas to make the inside all quirky and interesting.
We finally stopped at 630pm as we were losing the light and I was losing my patience with the windows – either a crap design, or really poor instructions, or perhaps both… I boiled, glazed and roasted a couple of the smaller ham joints which I had been wet curing in brine since Monday for dinner, delicious 🙂
We watched Doctor Who – a two parter – and suddenly the whole week has gone.