It's not size that matters, it's how you use it
Dec 1, 2015 22:40:10 GMT
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Post by petegsx on Dec 1, 2015 22:40:10 GMT
Well after having a browse through and seeing how all you guys seem to have oodles of space for grand sheds, I thought I'd show you what a "space constrained" shed would end up like 
The driver for the shed is the fact that we have a relatively small (540 square metre) block of land with a reasonable sized house on it, and a 2 car garage which is part of the house... and there's always 2 cars in the garage.
I ended up with enough space for a bit of a workshop in front of one car and just enough room to squeeze the 450 in behind it, however now I have the Kat to build I had absolutely no room to work on it, do any more spray painting, or anything along those lines. To paint the 450 I had to block half the garage for a week which is a bit tricky to organise.
I did have a photo of my 450 squeezed behind the Peugeot but can't find it now... I have a bit over a metre width to squeeze it in.
Here's the tiny workshop I managed to squeeze in (freshly photographed after a clean up last night):
And here's the area I had to put a shed in down the side of the house, about 3 metres wide from memory:
I'm building the shed in such a way that I can expand the centre section so when I'm spray painting I'm getting a little extra room to walk around in, so the slab has a bit of an extended area at the front, however the overall normal size of the shed is 1.4m x 4.8m, and I had to dig the top end into the clay a bit to keep a good height to be able to walk around in.
It's actually taken a couple of years to get as far as it has, the hole in the ground celebrated it's anniversary and then the slab celebrated it's anniversary... had to fix some concrete cancer on the back balcony and between that, time, weather, and funds it all just took forever... however I took a couple of weeks off work recently and got stuck in.
No real photos of inside yet as there's more to do, but I did finally get power and light in there the other week so now I can finish the inside.
I'll be putting some acoustic insulation in seeing as it's so close to the neighbour as well as the bedroom and I'll be painting the internal cladding white to get the best lighting I can in there.
For the moment it's just storing the loosely bolted together Kat roller until I can get my hands on the insulation and cladding.
The driver for the shed is the fact that we have a relatively small (540 square metre) block of land with a reasonable sized house on it, and a 2 car garage which is part of the house... and there's always 2 cars in the garage.
I ended up with enough space for a bit of a workshop in front of one car and just enough room to squeeze the 450 in behind it, however now I have the Kat to build I had absolutely no room to work on it, do any more spray painting, or anything along those lines. To paint the 450 I had to block half the garage for a week which is a bit tricky to organise.
I did have a photo of my 450 squeezed behind the Peugeot but can't find it now... I have a bit over a metre width to squeeze it in.
Here's the tiny workshop I managed to squeeze in (freshly photographed after a clean up last night):
And here's the area I had to put a shed in down the side of the house, about 3 metres wide from memory:
I'm building the shed in such a way that I can expand the centre section so when I'm spray painting I'm getting a little extra room to walk around in, so the slab has a bit of an extended area at the front, however the overall normal size of the shed is 1.4m x 4.8m, and I had to dig the top end into the clay a bit to keep a good height to be able to walk around in.
It's actually taken a couple of years to get as far as it has, the hole in the ground celebrated it's anniversary and then the slab celebrated it's anniversary... had to fix some concrete cancer on the back balcony and between that, time, weather, and funds it all just took forever... however I took a couple of weeks off work recently and got stuck in.
No real photos of inside yet as there's more to do, but I did finally get power and light in there the other week so now I can finish the inside.
I'll be putting some acoustic insulation in seeing as it's so close to the neighbour as well as the bedroom and I'll be painting the internal cladding white to get the best lighting I can in there.
For the moment it's just storing the loosely bolted together Kat roller until I can get my hands on the insulation and cladding.
