themonkeysdidit

The eagle eyed among you may be wondering what happened to part two of the shed build. Well, as part one wasn’t really part one, and I didn’t document part two, we’ll just move straight on to part three and say no more about it. So, with out further a do, ta daaaaaaa:

It took two days, a new power tool and a good bottle of red but the shed is done*! And it actually looks pretty good! I even managed to stay within the instructions for at least the first half before deciding I knew better than the bods** at B&Q and improving the shed build and design on the fly.

To celebrate we BBQ’d another chicken according to the now legendary beer can (although this time it was cider) method. Good times!

*OK, it’s not 100% done as an X brace across the back wall and some garden shrubbery type stuff in front are still required, but that’s only a small matter.

**For those in the know, the pun was fully intended.

OK, it’s not really part 1 as we’ve already bought the shed from B&Q, had it delivered (yes, amazingly they actually turned up this time) and worked out where it’s going to go (in the garden – a bit of a no brainer really). This is the first real work though, digging out the garden where the base is going to go.

We’re going for a concrete base as a fit and forget solution, which means a lot of hard work now, but no work later which sounds pretty good to me. So here it is, one hole (complete with shuttering timber frame in place – thank god it fits!) where some rather pleasant turf used to be.

In fact, I’m so impressed with my digging, here’s another shot from a slightly different angle:

And while we’re at it, check out all the turf I carefully removed:

As you may have guessed, I’m quite impressed with my handy work here! The next step is to compact the ground down, ready for the base layer of stones, it’s exciting this suburban living!

Of course, being slightly geeky, I couldn’t just spend an afternoon digging a hole with no technology to keep me motivated so I set up my camera on the tripod, teathered it to Aperture and created a small automator script to take a picture every 30s. These pictures were then imported into imovie and I created a small time lapse movie and uploaded it to you tube. Isn’t technology great!