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Thanks man, yea I agree it looks nice & clean now but I'm under no illusion that it'll look like a bombsite after a few months..I'm not known as the most tidiest person around haha

yep you're right there 3m eave, 4m apex height should be plenty high enough for a hoist when funds allow. The slab is a good 120mm deep throughout that end bay so it'll be good and solid

Thanks guys, can't wait to get this all fitted out

Wow. 3 weeks and not a lot done - got the first coat on the floor done yesterday. Damn I hate painting.

Eww baby rats..brings back memories as a kid of seeing then in grandads hayshed on the farm in Blenheim. Disgusting little things..did you leave it for Chris to clean out?..

Maybe your moggy just likes turquoise coloured high heel shoes?..

Won't be able to attend, but cool car chase! (posted before but ah well).. Interesting note to Zebradude - looks like the baddie steps over a Morris Oxford at 3:13.. probably this fine example for sale at the bottom of the country.. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=859259042 I'll go away now

Great song, good taste in music my man

Been pretty slack over the last week or so with progress so not much to report - got the gutters on though.. In other news, I did a deal with the builder on my Torana sedan. So he's picking that up later today. It's meant all the labour for the last few weeks has been to pay for the car & it simplifies my project list down to the HQ & the Torana hatch, so I'm pretty happy about that. Oh, & I managed to start the HQ yesterday - was the first time it ran in 10 years, so massively stoked about that!! I took a vid of that so if I manage to transfer that on to my computer I'll post it up when I start a build thread on it. Happy Days!

Yea I found them pretty good to deal with. Happy I got someone to put it together and it worked out heaps cheaper on an hourly rate than a fixed contract price. Their instructions are a little vague in places, but overall a great product and the best price from everyone I got quotes from, including totalspan who I thought were supposed to be well priced..

Cool.. I'll take a squiz later and see what I can find

Thanks mate - yea a bit bigger would be nice but budget constraints was my first hurdle, then council planning requirements as another but thankfully my neighbours signed off on it (12m side boundary & the shed sits right inside that lol) A lean to out the front sounds like a good idea so might have to look at that later in the year, cheers I'm gonna do the same & put in a stormwater tank to feed the chook run & animals, as well as putting a sink in the corner of the shed for cleaning up & making coffee's. What's the go with a waste oil burner/heater? is that something that can be made up or picked up from somewhere?

Ah yes, passed you going up the Bombay's on Saturday, but you didn't seem to be struggling too much. I got off at the BP to get some cash out & it took me to Takanini to catch back up again... pic to prove it!

It's been a productive last 3 days - will let the pic's show progress.. Really happy with the natural lighting in the shed. These pic's were taken at about 4:30pm.. The shed makes my new toy look little!.. Just gotta order the flashings now & I'll get the builder back to do this & the guttering then she's all done bar the electrical & stormwater tank. Hoping to paint the floors in the next week or so as well, and then I can start setting it all up to make a start on the new HQ...good times!

I always like getting packages from oversea's...just like christmas..exciting!

Work done..time for more pic's to get me up to date Concrete got cut a couple of days after the pour & the guy who did the boxing who happens to install these shed's as well, made a start on the structure.. now I had all intentions of putting this together with my old man, but with age comes common sense (well, sometimes) & I quickly realised that I'd earn more money in front of the computer in half the time that the builder would take to put this up, so I tee'd it up for him & his son to construct the majority of it with me doing as much of the menial tasks as possible Only took him 2 days to get the structure up & squared off.. At the end of the second day he set up all the wall cladding sheets & predrilled them for me so I couldn't fuck up a straight line (I am a draughtsman btw so what are the chances of that?) made my job easier.. Did the front & back wall with my oldest boy..he's 13 & any chance to drag him away from a screen is good in my book.. Next day, Dad helped me with one end wall, then came back the next day to do the other one.. Decided I'd give it a go trimming the gable ends down with my trusty old tin snips...what. a. shit. job. Pain in the arse & managed to rip my forearm up pretty good, but got it done eventually..computer hands got a coupla blisters but I'll survive.. Saturday just gone, builder came over with his son, & with me on the ground doing all the grunt work, we got the roof on in less than 4 hours...Roof shout!!.. After this I spent the afternoon starting on the roller door framing, & this is where I'm at as of yesterday.. Hoping to get the door framing & front cladding done by the weekend, & the builders son is turning up on Saturday to put in the PA door & finish off trimming back the wall cladding with his nibbler - don't fancy trying to use tin snips to trim those corners up!.. Will update as progress continues..

Cheers, and that's some good idea's there with the network cable etc.. the house is wired for an alarm so might as well continue it through to the shed as well More updates soon..

Ah cool, thanks mate.. took a little look & couldn't find it! Yea, overhead restricts access as the house eave is only about 2.2m above the ground. Will definately mark where it is with one of those little tags at either end & install it legally with the tape & protective strip so there shouldn't be any issues. I've got a digger here as well so that'll save the back breaking work of digging a trench too (it'll just be a little wider than normal cos of access issues)

Cool man, I'll take a gander

The shed is 7.5m deep x 12m long. Will be a 3m eave & 4m ridge height which is what I was after for when I chuck a hoist in there in the next couple of years. Getting old so I gotta make the car come to my height as opposed to me crawling under the car for servicing etc.. haha

Absolutely!! Bugger about your job mate, cheers for the offer of labour though One question I have if your good self or anyone else can advise me on - what is the depth of the trench required for laying the main power cable from the house to the shed? Also, do I have to get s sparky to lay the cable & all associated protection measures in the trench or can I do this myself?

Well this started way back in July last year.. was getting over a break up & needed to spend some money (not mine but the banks) so thought what better thing than to build a big shed which I've always wanted so I have somewhere to work on my car's.. Borrowing money wasn't a problem..apparently it's ok to have a massive mortgage, so did the ringing around thing for quotes & settled on Waikato Shed Company to supply the kit. Building/Resource consent got approved September/October. Was waiting for a mate to drop his digger around so the old man could prep the site but that was taking ages so got a guy in to do it for me - well fuck me if that didn't blow the budget! Here's me thinking we'll just scrape the surface a little bit & lay down some gravel & shit, but the digger guy suggested I keep the floor level up high to prevent potential flooding off the driveway. Good advice at the time, but 160 cubic metres of metal & $5,200 later I was kinda scratching my head thinking hmmm...what just happened here.. Anyway's, it was all a good thing (convinced myself of this) & the job he did was bloody good I thought.. This got completed back in mid November so I was thinking yea, I'll get this shed up by xmas time!!...yea right.. Tee'd up another mate who is a concrete layer, & he came around when this was done & said "yep looks really good, we'll get this done by early December"...well, let just say I had better communication with his wife than I did with him over the following 2 1/2 months of trying to pin him down to get the job done... Roll on the middle of January & I got a quote from a well known guy in Pukekohe to do the job, & after a bit of phone tag - namely me doing all the ringing & him choosing not to ring me back (same as my mate), I eventually gave up on him too. All I wanted them to do is box & pour the frigging thing, as I was happy to dig the holes, lay the polythene & mesh to save some coin. So, third time lucky - sent a text to Garth at Waikato Shed Company asking if he could recommend anyone. Next morning he gave me a name, called the guy & that afternoon he was around taking a look. So a few days later (Waitangi Day) he came around with his wife who labours for him, & they set up the boxing.. Next day I dug out all of the pad footings & roller door thickening.. And the day after that, I started on the polythene & a good mate of mine came around to help finish off laying the mesh.. Slab got poured the following Thursday by another crew, & they did a mighty fine job.. Even had a little bit left over to fill in some patio squares in front of the house.. Next stage, erection!!!

Jesus hasn't moved much either..

Progress is gooood...so the pony has landed then?

Just saw a pic of you guys in a NZ Rodder mag from a few months ago.. Have you seen it or has it been posted here before?