New workshop for 2020

[DBT85]

Chop chop Phil!

 

[Sheptonphil]

Chop chop Phil![/quote
You youngsters! A bit of a catch up from the last couple of days, unlike some, (anon) I didn’t take the weekend off just to tidy up.

Architrave is fitted to all the door frames and it’s all stopped and sanded ready for primer/undercoat.

Another result, I contacted the cladding company and they only offered the palletised delivery, BUT, I asked them to chop up two 3.6m lengths into 900mm pieces, strap them together and I’d arrange courier collection. No problem he says, and £6.70 later I had this turn up. I’ve 14 pieces 870mm to fix, so this will allow trimming to size and cot off damaged ends if dropped in transit.

That’ll be for the weekend, whist it’s wet I’ve finished off the first fix electrical and started the second fix. With a bit of luck the electrician will be here Saturday to test it all and connect both ends. There’s twenty seven double sockets and two fused outlets in two ring circuits, one lighting and fire alarm, one dedicated heater and one circuit for the summer house. The Ethernet is now installed for the CNC and a wireless sender is in the loft. the house fire alarms and workshop alarm are linked, if one is triggered, they all sound.

I’ve now got my old 5 1/2ft x 3ft workbench and table saw in so I have something to work on making the side benches and dirty table. This will be re topped to 7x3 when I get round to it. I picked up a stainless steel 40”x 24” table from a local baker, from which I will use the top to make my metal working bench in Dirty room. Local Facebook page also provided me with a freebie new 2m length of worktop for my sink top and canteen. (space for a kettle).
New compressor arrives Thursday, a 90litre belt driven jobbie, it’s apparently quieter than my 30 year old direct drive 24 litre, so I can build the cupboard to fit it rather than hoping it will fit under the worktop. The 24 litre can reside in the garage as it’s always been a pain just topping up tyres and the like having to drag the compressor down to the garage at the old place. Also managed to scabbie two really nice tall steel cabinets, four shelves plus a large drawer in each.
Got to work out where the air filter is going, I think it will be on the ceiling on the left side, creating a circular air flow.

 

[DBT85]

So what you're saying is you forgot to run an air line from the workshop to the garage :ho2

Looking great Phil.

Can I ask what made you go for the metal sockets over white ones?

 

[Blackswanwood]

Are you sticking with the concrete floor surface Phil?

 

[DBT85]

Another one from me, what did you use to secure your ridge to the roof? Only the eternit fibre cement and cembrit fibre cement ridge screws seem to be a pig to get hold of.

 

[Sheptonphil]

So what you're saying is you forgot to run an air line from the workshop to the garage :ho2

Looking great Phil.

Can I ask what made you go for the metal sockets over white ones?

It honestly never crossed my mind to run a pipe down there, but it’s 35m, a lot of digging.
Using the trunking they all bolt together with the couplers and they take the knocks of a workshop better. It’s not a beauty contest, and somehow these look more in keeping. Every one is earthed as well, maybe not required but things get dropped and hit more in here and these will never be unsafe. Not sure you’d get a good fit between white sockets and conduit. Using the female couplers it’s all solid, but easy to alter if required. (And it surely will).

Another one from me, what did you use to secure your ridge to the roof? Only the eternit fibre cement and cembrit fibre cement ridge screws seem to be a pig to get hold of.

I used 60mm Tec screws from Screwfix. They’re self sealing with the DPM washers Supplied.

Are you sticking with the concrete floor surface Phil?

The floor has had 50mm celotex insulation laid on it and then 22mm P5 Norboard Flooring chipboard on top. It probably looks like concrete, as dust, wet feet and paint overspray have ‘aged it’ and given it this lovely patina. :?

 

[DBT85]

Thanks again Phil.

One more!

So the 135 degree ridge tiles I have here (the wrong ones, not sold them yet) have a hole in the top about 1/3 the way along the exposed ridge. When I look at some photos online others seem to have it too. Now these are unventilated ones but I'm not sure I get why there's a hole in it.

Did yours?

 

[Sheptonphil]

Thanks again Phil.

One more!

So the 135 degree ridge tiles I have here (the wrong ones, not sold them yet) have a hole in the top about 1/3 the way along the exposed ridge. When I look at some photos online others seem to have it too. Now these are unventilated ones but I'm not sure I get why there's a hole in it.

Did yours?

No, no hols at all in mine. The hole is to take a self sealing screw down through for the dry ridge system into a central 2x1. A vented ridge tile is a different beast.

 

[Sheptonphil]

Second fix electrical finished, although sparky is not now coming till Monday to test and connect. Middle door removed for paint work, architraves all primed and undercoated

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Stainless top here now to build the welding bench in the dirty room, need to remove the top, discard the legs and build a bench under it six inches below sockets.

The tall cabinets, a local bargain at £35 each, are in their final place.

This weekend should see the air line installed, last of the cladding up, and moving in of the 16” bandsaw, and pillar drill. Possibly the dust extractor. This is to set the layout and also be used in the construction of the internals, benches, drawers etc.

 

[flying haggis]

those cabinets look really good, and brilliant for the price.

 

[Sheptonphil]

Superb find. I originally bought one, but when I went to collect said ‘shame you haven’t got any more’. Big mistake, there were four more in the Luton van, a clear out from an office block. I went back twice more and now have three, two here and one for the garage to store nasty gardening sharp stuff and chemicals away from the grandchildren. The sliding drawers are a brilliant addition.

 

[Sheptonphil]

A good fun day. All the hard, dirty, heavy work is well behind me, everything now is so much smaller, lighter, cleaner and more satisfying to complete.

The sink unit base is in, and framed to fit the compressor. A pair of Louvre doors on here will keep it tidy.

Then the worktop cut and fitted, cut the sink bowl in and fit the tap, an instant heat type hot and cold jobbie. The door will be donated from our kitchen, as will five wall cupboards which will go on two walls when the new kitchen is fitted later in the year. I’ll put a single row of tiles around the worktop.

The drill press and bandsaw were imported from the garage where they have been stored for six months. Positioning them showed a flaw in my plan, the two tall cabinets are best placed opposite sides of the workshop. This meant three of the electric sockets were in the wrong places. No problem, with the trunking system, they were relocated with no disruption and no butchering walls.

Last evening whilst closing the garage up I noticed I’d left the dirty room lights on. Thought this may happen, so today I re-powered them looped in from the workshop light circuit. Whilst switched independently, the dirty room, like the loft, can now only be turned on if the workshop is lit, and if left on again, will be turned off with the workshop lights.

Next up, the fire alarm. I’ve got a linked system, so this one will sound the alarms in the house and the house ones will trigger the workshop one. It was fitted at the end more likely to cause a problem fire wise, and powered by the circuit removed from dirty room lights earlier. The alarm is a multi sensor unit which cross checks two types of sensors, optical and heat, to eliminate false alarms. It will not trigger with dust as an ionisation sensor would. They are the Aico Ei3024.

With more and more tools being taken up to the workshop, each job is becoming easier to complete.

Despite reservations about the size, it is going to work well by the time I get side benches built to hold bench tools like the pro edge, mitre saw and sander. The side benches will not be designed as work benches as such, that will be the domain of the central island and so will they will be narrow, at 400mm and 450mm.

Coming together, and getting used to the space to work in. Lighting is amazing, no shadows wherever I stand.

 

[flying haggis]

looking good. have you chosen the carpet yet.................

 

[Sheptonphil]

looking good. have you chosen the carpet yet.................

Lucky there’s no windows, Mrs S would be making curtains. :shock: May happen yet when I make the door in the next couple of weeks, that will be a four pane split stable door.

Air line now in around the dirty room, poking out into the workshop, will run the air circuit this week. Sparky is scheduled for tomorrow morning, hurrah.

 

[Sheptonphil]

Not saying it was either wholly or partly to do with the build, but the neighbour who has alsways been unhappy with the project, and raised ‘concerns’ to planning has now put his house on the market :shock: :shock: :shock:

Never in 45 years of moving have I driven away a neighbour in six months.

 

[Inspector]

You might luck out. The new neighbour might want to put up a shed on his side and you will never have to worry about what you do in yours again. =D>

Pete

 

[MikeG.]

Not saying it was either wholly or partly to do with the build, but the neighbour who has alsways been unhappy with the project, and raised ‘concerns’ to planning has now put his house on the market :shock: :shock: :shock:

Never in 45 years of moving have I driven away a neighbour in six months.

Don't worry, you'll be stuck with him for a while. Post-lockdown house sales aren't exactly booming.

 

[DBT85]

Not saying it was either wholly or partly to do with the build, but the neighbour who has alsways been unhappy with the project, and raised ‘concerns’ to planning has now put his house on the market :shock: :shock: :shock:

Never in 45 years of moving have I driven away a neighbour in six months.

I wonder how much you knocked off his house value :lol:

 

[Sheptonphil]

Not saying it was either wholly or partly to do with the build, but the neighbour who has alsways been unhappy with the project, and raised ‘concerns’ to planning has now put his house on the market :shock: :shock: :shock:

Never in 45 years of moving have I driven away a neighbour in six months.

I wonder how much you knocked off his house value :lol:

And added to mine at the same time

He’d only been there a year before I descended upon him. Never mentioned moving in the conversations we had before this. £8000 in stamp duty he won’t get back.

Probably a coincidence.

On to the last bit of cladding at the back today, first dry day for a week since the top up boards arrived. Sparks delayed till tomorrow, so I should get it finished.

Don't worry, you'll be stuck with him for a while. Post-lockdown house sales aren't exactly booming.

Put it on last Friday, there was a viewing Sunday, looking good for a start for him.

 

[Sheptonphil]

Finally, the last of the cladding is on, the exterior is now finished, barring the main door.

I managed to clear all the dross accumulated from the build and do a tip run, the garden looks less like a building site now,

Mrs S is happier. (Secretly I think she can see her summer house getting done this year), although she has also now thrown in another major job, a ten metre long 600mm high raised plant bed. She’d like this done before the patio goes down :? (Yep, another job added to the list) in front the new workshop so the topsoil removed when building the patio base can be used to fill it.

I know I’m going to have to leave the workshop project for wet days before long, there are other things of greater priority in her schedule. At least I got my project done before the kitchen refit. This new house lark is all well and good, but there always seems to be more jobs added to the list before the first ones are completed.

I’m wanting to get the side benches in beforehand, now, do I make them from kitchen cabinets and cut then down to the desired depth as a base, adding my own drawers as I want five of more shallow drawers in most bays, as too deep a drawer and stuff just ends up on top each other.

Or do I make the base cabinets as well from 3/4 ply? I will have eight or ten to make, most will be drawer units, some will be open to take mobile tools like the thicknesser and bobbin sander on trolleys.

Should I use 3/4 ply for the drawer sides? Would 12mm be heavy enough? I will be using full extension runners. I will probably face them off with edge banded ply.