Scrapheap Challenge

[Snadger]

Snadger - I'm curious about those packages in the shed, on the left. Please tell me what they are or I won't sleep tonight

There you are VC............http://www.ceilingtilesuk.co.uk/12-c...YZ5RoCDHvw_wcB

Sleep tight!

[veggiechicken]

At last...................

[Snadger]

Another days demolition on the plot. Didn't get as far as I hoped but reasonably happy with progress. The guy who had these sheds sure went over the top when he built them. A 4X2 frame with a 3/4 plywoood exterior, a half inch thick plasterboard interior and some kind of board insulation fitted in between! The whole lot was screwed together with 2 inch screws which have had the heads rot off. Most of the demolition has been with a sledge hammer and bowsaw. Trees behind had grown over and into the hut so they needed sawing off.
On top of all that the flue pipe for the woodburner is 1/2 in thick 6 inch diameter cast iron pipe. The damm thing nearly killed me when it came down. Glad to se I've still got my cat like reflexes although it still caught my shoulder on its way down!

Anyway, after a days graft all thats left of the shed from hell, is the back and the floor. I am aching all over and looked like a chimney sweep when I got home, so straight in the bath before my Sunday dinner.
Trouble is, with trying to save quite a lot to build my new summerhouse, the plot is finishing up looking worse than it was!

I'll post a few more piccies once I get them downloaded

[Snadger]

Ok, here we are back again;_

First piccie is of the back of the shed. On the floor to the left is the old flue pipe. On the floor to the right is the old ray burn woodburning stove lying on its back. Both are extremely heavy and will be a struggle if i don't enlist some help to move them.


Second piccie is a close up of the flue pipe end to show you have thick the wall is and ultimately, how heavy the pipe is when its trying to kill you by falling on your head!




Forgot to add, those pink boards at the back are 8 X 4 X 1 inch thick MDF and there's three of them. I'm really looking forward to shifting those!

[Snadger]

No piccies this time so you'll have to take my word for it.

Pink MDF boards are now broken up with an axe and after a lot of hassle, having to light the fire four times, are now toast!

Managed to pull off the plasterboard and generally set about the back frame work with an axe. Once the frame was broken and burned it was relatively easy to pull the back of the shed over. Back is now on the floor, and that's where its staying for the time being.

I stupidly made a fire downwind of where I was working. Clothes are stinking of smoke again and I couldn't breathe!

Stayed until about 6.45 until flames had died down.

Tomorrows job is to unscrew the boards of the remains of the framework and see how much I can re-use for my summerhouse. Still need to loosen and move another 5 mahoosive panes of glass from the back of the old greenhouse.

Sorry if I am boring you, but this is an aid to memory for me for the future, where i can look back and say to myself "YOU IDIOT"

[veggiechicken]

Sorry if I am boring you, but this is an aid to memory for me for the future, where i can look back and say to myself "YOU IDIOT"

Just to save you looking back, I'll say it for you

YOU IDIOT

[Snadger]

Just to save you looking back, I'll say it for you

YOU IDIOT

Thanks Vc..............you're so thoughtful!

[Snadger]

Once i get all the the houses demolished on my shanty town plot, I'll have a triangular blank canvas to work on!

I've been trolling the net looking for Ideas and have come across a few that look interesting.
These are for gardens, but its the concept I'm interested in. First one is circles. Imagine veg beds instead of lawns!



My favourite though is the block beds set at an angle!



Just remember these are design studies drawn by someone else and would need to be adjusted to suit my plot.
For instance, I am bordering on a wooded dene.The dene edge of the plot would really lend itself to soft fruit bushes which should thrive on a woodland edge.Easy maintenance as well. If those soft fruit bushes were thorny, so much the better to deter trespassers.

[Bigmallly]

I like the first idea Snadge but with keyhole beds for ease of access.

[bario1]

I'm doing something similar with my new half plot - basing the whole layout on a circle rather than rectangles. At the centre of the circle will be a flower bed with a 'bug hotel' insect thingy made of pallets, then 4 'quadrant' shaped keyhole beds, and then bits and bobs in the spaces left round the edges.

Well that's the (vaguest) of plans, anyway! Nice to see someone else is thinking 'out of the box' so to speak.

I like the first design too, very organic... like crop circles.

[Snadger]

I like the first idea Snadge but with keyhole beds for ease of access.

Nice one big fella! The keyholes would improve access. Be nice brick edged as definition I was wondering how I would get from round bed to round bed without walking on planted areas and that would solve problem.

[Snadger]

I'm doing something similar with my new half plot - basing the whole layout on a circle rather than rectangles. At the centre of the circle will be a flower bed with a 'bug hotel' insect thingy made of pallets, then 4 'quadrant' shaped keyhole beds, and then bits and bobs in the spaces left round the edges.

Well that's the (vaguest) of plans, anyway! Nice to see someone else is thinking 'out of the box' so to speak.

I like the first design too, very organic... like crop circles.

My other plot is a potager style with central herb wheel which I'm a bit bored with now. Good for food production and pleasing on the eye if well maintained........but mine isn't!

[Snadger]

Think I'm warming to the first one also!

[Bigmallly]

Nice one big fella! The keyholes would improve access. Be nice brick edged as definition I was wondering how I would get from round bed to round bed without walking on planted areas and that would solve problem.

You'd have to put paths around them, you could maybe get away with overlapping 2 circles each having their own keyhole.

[Snadger]

No 1 shed is now officially 'toast'

Finished off dismembering the floor tonight, another massive burn of unwanted wood and I even managed to topple over the RSJ's it was standing on. Managed to save some usefull material for building my summerhouse.Some of the floor joists were in surprisingly good nick.
Tried lifting one end of the RSJ's to move them but I reckon I need to enlist the help of one of my sons for shifting these and possibly the 8X4 boards into a tidy stack as well.

I was going to leave the other shed until I'd completed the summerhouse but have decided it has to go next to give me a blank canvas.. I'm off work next week (start of the fishing season) so I'll try and knock nine bells out of it then!

I might try and get some more piccies of the dereliction tomorrow evening.