The DIY/Doing up house Thread (aka My house is falling down)

SHED FOUR - THE FINAL (I promise) (shed three, two, one)

It is done. Actually done a few weeks back but I forgot to take photos so popped out this morning. Only thing left to do was the door (kinda important, I grant you) and internal fittings.

The door was the only thing I didn't really plan out in the beginning - had a vague notion to make a proper door frame/door combo so just left an appropriate sized hole in the front wall to fit a frame. But during construction I figured a door frame would eat another ~two inches of available door width and would preclude/complicate outward opening tee-hinges. So used the stud work as a frame for a standard ledger & brace door, boards arranged to present best weather proofing to prevailing wind direction. Featheredge cladding made it a bit of a pain as no flat surfaces, so had to make wedges to create a flat face (and fill gaps which would otherwise be an easy place to jam a crowbar). Security is a bit poor tbh, currently easiest way to break in is to bring a screwdriver & unscrew the hinges, so will replace some screws with mushroom head bolts when I get round to it. After that, well a brick through the window I guess, or a bit of effort with a crowbar. I've got a reciprocating saw which would literally cut the whole shed in half in five minutes flat, so it's never going to be fort knox, but we live in a fairly low crime area and I just need to upgrade it to the point where baddies would need to go equipped, and the risk/reward isn't worth it for them. Anyway:

And with that, shed is done. Made some shelving from left over OSB and twinslot racks left in the attic by previous owners, put hooks up for mower/trimmer/spades/etc. It's been done a few weeks and it's bone dry inside, not getting any condensation on the window. Honestly whole thing went together a lot easier than I envisaged.

Would do different: would probably go with 18mm sheet for the floor rather than 15mm - it's fine, and is already better than you see on store bought sheds, but there's a teensy bit of flex with my joist spacing. 15mm was kinda dictated by getting most of it for free. Oh and I'm not sure why I only bothered to run DPC round the front edge back when I did the base in part one, why didn't I do it all round? The front edge is the most important, and I suspect even doing that is overkill but I sort of regret not overkilling even more as the opportunity to do it is now lost. And spending the extra ~£150 (think, can't remember) for shiplap cladding rather than featheredge might have been worth it to make the door fitting easier by keeping the walls flat; didn't anticipate how annoying that would be.

Costs: Framing & cladding came to £293, spent £25 on sheeting but skip dived the rest - would probably be closer to £75 all bought. £40 on ten metres of roof felt, of which I've still got six metres left. £25 on locks & hinges for the door. Around 150 4.5*75/85mm decking screws used for framing (box of 100 is ~£7, bought some, had some already), just shy of 50 6.7*100mm coach bolts fixing frame to base, and roof to frame (box of 50 is £15) and bought a tub of a thousand 4*40mm screws for fixing sheet & cladding for ~£15, probably used three quarters. Other odd screws as appropriate, felt nails, glue, brad nails & staples etc from the DIY CUPBOARD OF WONDER, probably a tenners worth? Paint was £25.

Total spend ~£450. So not exactly a bargain, but I think comparable with top end commercial offering of similar size and maybe, if I toot my own trumpet, even a teensy bit better.

So painting sort of complete now in the living room, slate grey walls and white skirtings/door/dado rail, because the walls were a bit of a mix of wallpaper and plastered and I'd had one or two areas of paint reactions I was a bit concerned the masking tape I'd need to use over the walls against the woodwork might pull off the new paint on the walls, so opted for a low tack tape rather than my usual one, I think the combination of this and decades of previous decorating messy junctions and unevenly trimmed wallpaper has left me with several areas where the paint has bled under the tape, something I was anticipating but still annoying, I guess I'll have to get a super fine bush out to touch up the grey.

Despite me doubting and cursing Mrs Mercury's choice of grey walls I have to say it is a rather nice colour.

Next project in the living room is a full height built-in bookcase all along one wall, might try and start it over Christmas, it's gonna be an Ikea Billy bookcase hack.