Nest in the Vines:: The Frames Are Done! A Sheddy Update.

 

I’m up to my eyeballs with building jargon …flashing and fascia and headers and 200 x 25’s, and rivets, and ridge capping and jambs and 2450mm and battens and bracing and noggins and paslode and …argh!!! Too many builder’s terms for me!!!!

Here’s a bit of an update on the shed…

Can you believe I have another 10 images of these frames?

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Frames are all done. Colorbond cladding is ordered. Next stop: roof and walls.

Cladding

There was much umming and ahhing this week over what sort of cladding to do the walls in. I would have so preferred recycled weatherboards but the ones we almost had were too pricey, all things considered. Colorbond it is. Windspray on the walls and Shale Grey on the roof.

Dramas

Dramas have been had over the lack of shed funds left. I can’t believe how quickly money can slip through your fingers when buying flashing and fascia and headers and 200 x 25’s, and rivets, and ridge capping and jambs and 2450mm and battens and bracing and noggins and paslode nails and, and, and…

The shock of facing the fact that perhaps we won’t be able to finish the inside of this little shed studio has been a difficult one to face. Will it or won’t it be lined? Will it or won’t it have hot running water? Can I or can’t I live with the end result?

I’m hoping that the little instant gas hot water system that people use in cabins and caravans, which I found will enable us to have hot water. It’s a cheapy, about $250.00 on good old ebay, and I’m hoping it will the job nicely. Seems the most affordable option to me.

Someone is coming this morning to chat about the electrical side of things and give me a bit of a price. Praying that we will be able to afford to hook it up to the power.

Tank News!!

The tank is now filled to the brim with beautiful river water. It seems so decadent to be able to wash our feet and fill our water bottles at our very own tap. Simple things, huh?

I’ve learnt abit about tanks now, too.

Number one is that it’s not good for a tank to sit on unlevel ground. This one I did think to myself and I did, along with my trusty assistants {Lewi and Meily}, in the very late, late afternoon, try to level out the crusher dust as best we could. Apparently, in the bright light of the day, it didn’t look to be quite as level as I’d thought the previous late, late afternoon. The whole tank had to be picked up and turned {with some help from John the digger man, dad, Tom and myself} and re-levelled.

Who would’ve thought that hooking a tank up to water pipes would be so tricky. What is there to know says me, to myself. Get the plumber to connect the pipe into that black bit at the bottom and put a tap on the opposite black bit. Bob’s your uncle. Or so I thought. It seems there is a little thing or two that needs to be known.

Number two thing of importance for tank installing is that the pipe needs to be connected into the top of the tank. Who would’ve thought? Not this little black duck, that’s for sure. Apparently it’s much better for everything if the pipe runs up to the top of the tank. So it had to be re-done before the filling could take place.

Anyway, onwards and upwards with the steep learning curve and the shed this week.

Kim xx