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This week has been a busy one again and with a bit of luck next week may see some more progress on the shed. Thanks to Iain, John and Alastair all the rafters are now ready and I had managed to do the end declivity pieces before being called off to a problem with our turbine up at Harlaw reservoir, fortunately fixed before the rain came so we got some more electricity.
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Since then our roofing sheets have arrived, I hope to take delivery of the OSB for below the sheets tomorrow morning and flashings should arrive tomorrow afternoon. Part of Friday will be planning a method of stripping and recovering the roof in a number of stages. If at all possible I’d like to continue this each day until it is completed after we make a start and I’m suggesting we make a start as soon as the weather allows. However that may not be possible, for example I was going to be away next week but my painter up north has told me he is self isolating having tested positive for covid so we will not be able to use the house for another couple of weeks so my plans are also up in the air at the moment. I have however finished the roof on my shed at home and fitted the rhone today. All information I need for the portacabin roof has now been tried and tested I think.
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Stewart, Mark and myself made a start on the refurbishing of items for Muirwood Park. The scarecrow is now back on it’s pole, three rubbings posts have been installed and the hedgehogs have been rehoused! Still more to do but getting there and more materials out of our shed which will be paid for so that’s good. We need to devise a system or record of materials used on each job so that we can ask for a suitable donation reflecting the cost of donated materials were we to purchase them and where we do not have an actual purchase invoice. Having spend over £1000 on shed materials this week there needs to be just free labour in our community efforts!
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Regarding the wee library, still taking up space at the shed I’ve found a couple of thick sheets (6mm) of polycarbonate which I hope I can clean up to make the fron doors but I do not have a double track to fit them in – does anyone have any lying around. Would need to be about 1m long and I’d need two double ones or four if I had to put singles side by side.
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As I’m writing this John has been questioning the size of the osb sheets – not sure if this is so that he can keep away until they are all unloaded and stored away or he’s wondering, as I am where they are going! They will have to go inside John, probably up towards the Currievale end of the shed but we’ll see tomorrow.
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That’s it for this week folks, now off to try and work out how many tek screws we need to pin the sheets down and how many to stitch down the sheet edges and flashings. What I have not been able to source yet are the wee plastic caps to cover the screws, we’ll need a lot but don’t rush and buy them Stewart as we don’t yet know the size of tek screw head and they are not all the same - I know as the 500 I still have from a previous job are no good for my shed this time round!
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That’s it for now, I hope to see some of you tomorrow,
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