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From: ^Tems^ on 19 Jun 2010 23:11 Did they finish your shed? Have you filled it yet?
From: Noddy on 20 Jun 2010 06:47 "^Tems^" <stevebrooks13(a)live.com> wrote in message news:NFfTn.3650$Ls1.3144(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > Did they finish your shed? Not yet. This is where it's at as of this morning: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/dasgib/IMGP2227.jpg They had some pretty miserable weather up there on Friday with decent sized hail that forced them to beat a retreat into the house at irregular intervals. They initially said it'd be up and finished by next Tuesday but given that nothing's been done since last Friday afternoon I expect it'll be later in the week. > Have you filled it yet? That'll be about a week after it's finished :) As soon as it's up and completed I reckon I've got a couple of days of cleaning the mud, dropped screws and offcut bits of tin out of it before I'm game to go anywhere near it with my car. Untidy bastards :) -- Regards, Noddy.
From: D Walford on 20 Jun 2010 07:18 On 20/06/2010 8:47 PM, Noddy wrote: > "^Tems^"<stevebrooks13(a)live.com> wrote in message > news:NFfTn.3650$Ls1.3144(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > >> Did they finish your shed? > > Not yet. This is where it's at as of this morning: > http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/dasgib/IMGP2227.jpg > > They had some pretty miserable weather up there on Friday with decent sized > hail that forced them to beat a retreat into the house at irregular > intervals. They initially said it'd be up and finished by next Tuesday but > given that nothing's been done since last Friday afternoon I expect it'll be > later in the week. Looks more like a shed now than the pile of bits I saw near the front gate:-) Let me know when you are ready to clean up the floor, my floor scrubber would clean that up in no time. Daryl
From: ^Tems^ on 20 Jun 2010 10:33 PhilD wrote: > "Noddy"<me(a)home.com> wrote in message > news:4c1df360$0$78838$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... >> > >> > "^Tems^"<stevebrooks13(a)live.com> wrote in message >> > news:NFfTn.3650$Ls1.3144(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >> > >>> >> Did they finish your shed? >> > >> > Not yet. This is where it's at as of this morning: >> > http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/dasgib/IMGP2227.jpg >> > > Every time I see a shed like that I'm annoyed that we didn't buy the block > next door when it was vacant. Ended up having to buy it years later anyway > to have some control over noisy tenants. Then again, a cyclone coded shed a > quarter of your size would probably have cost just as much to do here. > http://s670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/phild12s131e/?action=view¤t=149931d6.pbw > This is only 6m x 6m enclosed that I designed myself then the Engineer added > to it to remain standing (but probably much perforated) after a cat5 > cyclone. All steel is RHS/SHS Duragal 125x75x4, 75x75x4& 75x50x2 with all > joints MIG welded and 19 columns set in to 1m x 600mm concrete footings. > Even with the solid construction they still made me put on pathetic diagonal > strappings across the roof, as if something was lacking in tortional > stiffness. The equivelant corner bracing to yours is 75x50x4 RHS. The 2 > I wondered why BHP shares jumped must have been when you produced your parts list :)
From: PhilD on 20 Jun 2010 11:06
"^Tems^" <stevebrooks13(a)live.com> wrote in message news:3FpTn.3769$Ls1.3037(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > PhilD wrote: >> "Noddy"<me(a)home.com> wrote in message >> news:4c1df360$0$78838$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... >>> > >>> > "^Tems^"<stevebrooks13(a)live.com> wrote in message >>> > news:NFfTn.3650$Ls1.3144(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >>> > >>>> >> Did they finish your shed? >>> > >>> > Not yet. This is where it's at as of this morning: >>> > http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/dasgib/IMGP2227.jpg >>> > >> Every time I see a shed like that I'm annoyed that we didn't buy the >> block >> next door when it was vacant. Ended up having to buy it years later >> anyway >> to have some control over noisy tenants. Then again, a cyclone coded shed >> a >> quarter of your size would probably have cost just as much to do here. >> http://s670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/phild12s131e/?action=view¤t=149931d6.pbw >> This is only 6m x 6m enclosed that I designed myself then the Engineer >> added >> to it to remain standing (but probably much perforated) after a cat5 >> cyclone. All steel is RHS/SHS Duragal 125x75x4, 75x75x4& 75x50x2 with >> all >> joints MIG welded and 19 columns set in to 1m x 600mm concrete footings. >> Even with the solid construction they still made me put on pathetic >> diagonal >> strappings across the roof, as if something was lacking in tortional >> stiffness. The equivelant corner bracing to yours is 75x50x4 RHS. The 2 > >> > > I wondered why BHP shares jumped must have been when you produced your > parts list :) I never did tally up the full steel costs. SHMBO did say I had a free hand in doing it but I think she regretted it later. The only Contractor used was for the slab so what was saved on labour by doing the rest completely ourselves went in to extra steel. Like I said, it's a cyclone shelter if the house looks like it won't survive. If a tree falls on it, it will be the tree that comes off second best. Once we got past boring the 19 footings and mixing the concrete (about 11 tonne of premix and 60 x 40kg bags of cement) for them in a little electric mixer over many days, the rest was easy, NOT. Even the steel supplier, inspector & slab concretor's want to come here in a cyclone. One interesting part was how the certifier's were concerned that I deleted a window, even though that made it better for flying debris protection but they never asked about the entrance or bifold main doors construction. They weren't on the Engineers design other than as name only. The other was that the Engineer got the design of the truss bracing's reversed and I changed them and no-one noticed. I did regret not doing a shallow curved roof with cold bent beams and could have eliminated the ridge capping though. Sitting on a thick insulating mat on a galv roof in 35degC with 90+% humidity cutting ridge capping is real fun. Roofers earn their money. PhilD |