The more observant out there will have wondered how the shed walls I built were going to stay up. 4inch screws into the base might hold the bottom but would soon fail if nothing was done at the top. To overcome this I installed M10 nuts, washers and thread in 3 locations at each corner and tightened. No chance of these walls coming apart now!
I’m afraid the pics kinda skip some of the next steps 
I cut the rafters, ridge etc for the roof and screwed on top of my walls. End result is this, you can also see that I’ve installed some of the noggins in the walls and made a start on boarding the inside with marine ply:
With base structure finished I screwed more exterior play to the roof and then covered with roofing paper:
The final roofing cover is going to be asphalt shingles from Wickes. In this pic I’ve made a start on installing the edging:
Posts Tagged: roof
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Apr 09
Roof ‘n joints
24
Jan 09
Woodburnin’
As the house currently has no central heating, or heating at all for that matter, this was a job I have been really looking forward too. We’d looked around the net for stoves and found a nice contemporary model which would fit the existing opening in what will eventually become the kitchen snug.
Here’s the existing opening with stove drawn on for size and then stripped out:
The bigggest job of fitting this stove was to feed the flue pipe down through the existing chimney and into the fireplace. I had bruises on my shoulder for a week from this job:
You can see in the last picture the slate tiled hearth made for stove. Again a building regs requirement.
Finally a couple of pics of the stove installed and working. If you don’t have one of these you must get one. If we ever move house again this will be one of the first things we install!
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Jun 08
Roof off (or at least a bit of it!)
With the glazing a conservatory roof gone we had left an area which used to house the wet room and kitchen.
This needs to be completely demolished before we can begin any of the new build. The first area to go was the slate tiles on the roof. I was intending to save these but unfortunately those that aren’t broken or cracked are mostly shot. They simply crumble in the hand. Not a huge issue as there are no where near enough to cover what will be the new roof and the almost certainly would not tie in with the new slates in any case.
With slates gone the roof timbers were next. This wasn’t too tricky as these joists were not fixed at all well at the top and simply lifted away . . . .
Having taken off the roof joists there remained a very large supporting beam at the bottom of the roof structure to be removed. A small section of wall that seemed to be supporting this was doing no such thing. I’m still wondering how it was still standing – I barely touched and the whole thing fell down!
As with all these jobs you need some sort of supervision. . . . .
