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Important to check everything horizontal I've now got the floor space and 3 x large shelf areas to store a whole load of gear with the added bonus that the front edge of the shelving is now parallel to the front wall of the shed. Much more will happen in here in the next couple of weeks in...

You can tell I'm a fan of CLS 2x4 timber :) This is how I cut the acute angles for the shelf support on the mitre saw: 3/4" ply for the shelves - awkward cuts for the corners and slots for the shed wall studs In she goes

The progress up to this point on the shed build documented so far - I'd describe that as at "stage 2". And stage 2 was were it stopped for a couple of years while a few really busy other things in life got in the way - all of it from work, of course... The only other bit of progress was...

You understand why a car port was important (y) It's actually in the paint shop right now... and I may well relocate it in the garage when it comes back and put the other car under the car port. Also used to have a blue IX FQ-320 from new but stupidly sold it in 2017 after 12 years ownership...

Hello all Looking for anyone knowledgeable enough to tell me whether I need a qualified electrician to do a job for me or whether I can legally perform the job myself. I have electrics in my garage. Dedicated spur and fed from house CU. There's clearly a SWA connection and it runs...

This is the type of thing that I've heard recommended in the past: Amazon - Nitrile Bonded Cork

An alternative option might be to divide the silver inlay into perhaps 6 or 8 pieces and use the joins as "features" - and I only suggest this because I actually like the handmade look of the join. If it were me, I'd probably try 7 divisions - I really love the look of sevenths for some reason...

One of the right side wall from the outside - not that you can see much, but now the wall is up, the partition fence can be removed And from the other side, clear to see how much the shed needs to taper down from around 8 feet wide on one side to around 3 feet wide on the thin end Narrow...

Fast forward now to after the roof is in, and the floor has been laid. Floor supports laid directly on top of the gravel, with damp membrane between the supports and the OSB flooring. Front wall now under construction after vertical studs in place and the intent for a window cavity laid out...

Another view of the new half joist and half rafter structure, prior to roof boards being cut - being the next job and possibly the most complex and difficult to calculate the angles for...

Then up goes the post, side beam, and first joist And the choice for other end of that first new joist was to use the top of the retaining wall as the supporting structure for a mini upright... with a 90deg turn to another mini joist as a spacer to the back joist of the car port. The new...

A mate of mine used to design, build and dyno test replacements for these for racing and tuned them to optimise bhp. He started by welding but I think he graduated to hydro forming. I'll ask if he still does this or still has the gear, because I think he supplied a couple and was very inexpensive.

Which is it? Meandering? Or repetitive? And you know what they say about an individual's point if they must resort to personal insults ;) Detail really, really matters. If you can't contend with detail, perhaps you ought to avoid threads that require a thoughtful and proper analysis of detail?

Satisfying webbing shot under the finished felted roof You'll also spot where I'd placed the old bike-store/tool store/shed - in an awkward triangular area at he back of the structure, and not covered from above. This gave me the idea of putting a car port rear extension on and making a real...

Pleasing symmetry unveiling itself - all performed solo Roof boards finally going on - as a solo worker this was tricky - big boards not easy to manoeuvre at ground level - never mind raising above head height. I used a couple of screws as pegs on the roof to retain them on the sloping roof...

It all seemed to be going up square and even, quite pleasing for an amateur's first project Bracing was planned and was very much required to stabilise the structure What a huge difference this made to structural rigidity - but as a bachelor of engineering this was unsurprising Are these...

Joists going up Centre joist mated nicely with the open mortice (whatever named joint this might be?) Template for screw holes Using a scrap to keep the joists in place until screwed in properly

New posts went up with reference to the existing posts - measured accurately at both ground level and at top - and sunk to the correct depth to provide a horizontal beam... It was late in the year, so evening progress after work went into darkness. Making sure that the post holes were laid...

It's a number of years ago, now, that we bought a car that we didn't want to park outside on our drive, under the trees which overhang from the woods behind. So I built a car port to protect the car from the elements... This is where the shed project really began, although the shed was just a...

But there is a false equivalence fallacy at work here, even if you deliberately try to double down on denying it. The fact is that the donations to Kier, that you are implying as sleaze, or somehow "inappropriate" all took place in the past 4 years whilst in opposition, and the only reason that...