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By Breaker (Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 08:45:46 AM EST) (all tags)
Tuesday it is.  I am back at work today so the Old Bloke is going solo this morning.


He cables to our socket points, two double sockets in the workshop shedshed side, one double socket in three corners of the studioshed; the final corner gets two triple sockets.

You can't see the other socket as the desk is in the way, but this is what they look like:

Impulse buy in the shop; thought that 6 sockets in the corner should just about be enough for the computer area.

Our friend A has come along to help after lunch; today will mostly be sorting the floor out which given how twisted some of the planks are, you really need two people to do it.  One to anchor an end in, and the other to batter their way into the middle, block between the plank and the hammer as you force the tongue into the groove (heh).

Then the other to batter their way to the middle, and then straighten it up with some more battering, then nail it to the bearers.

No pics of this seeing as I was at work (dammit), but here's what the floor looks like now the woodwork's done.

The shedshed is a bit tunnel-like but there's not a lot I can do about that.

The studioshed is looking pretty vast though, ~3 x 4.5m:

In response to a question last Shedyssey, this is how the corners of the log fit together.  Below we have a nice snug fit of the tongue and groove, and an abysmal fit.  That log just wouldn't sit right, despite some heavy duty battering with weights draped over it to hold it down.  This was the best we managed.

I get home from work, send Dad in to have a bath and tidy up for him. 

On the right hand side of the shed, I notice the logs start to bow out a bit.  We jam short pieces of wood between the brick wall and the outside of the shed and it straightens.  We pile bricks and the old paving slabs on top to hopefully push the logs onto each other a bit more.

Then as it's his last night, we go through the work plan for tomorrow and get riotously pissed together.  My Dad's ace, and I tell him so.  Cue drunken hugs in the kitchen before MBW comes up to tell us to keep the noise down a bit.

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oi by komet (4.00 / 1) #1 Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 09:07:01 AM EST
Are those sockets behind an RCCB or RCBO? I hope so, given the kids.

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Duh! Son of an electrician, etc. by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 09:44:31 AM EST
It is in fact behind two RCD's, one at the house fuseboard (through a proper junction box before the fuseboard) and an earthed steel consumer unit in the shed.

But that's for the next Shedyssey.


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JUST CHECKING by komet (4.00 / 1) #5 Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 10:15:46 AM EST
There are still far too many people who have never heard of an RCB.

I blame society. And the media.

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heh GFCI for the americans by sasquatchan (4.00 / 1) #6 Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 10:51:12 AM EST
and don't you need building permits to run conduit and power to the shed ? and an inspection by local codes guy and sign off by licensed electrician, though dad seems to cover the sign off...

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Not permits, but as we did the work ourselves by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 11:03:29 AM EST
It has to be signed off by an IEE 16th Edition qualified electrician, at least the parts inside the house.

Of course there are two shops and the Cavalry and Guards Club in Mayfair which have burned down due to electrical fires, what with me wiring them 20 odd years ago and not being 16th Edition qualified.

Clearly a shed wired by an electrician with over 45 years experience but no inclination to pay the £1500 quid certification exam feww is a liability.

Which is why we'll fork out the hundred quid electrician's Union tax and get a 16th Edition qualified to sign us off.


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interesting by sasquatchan (4.00 / 1) #2 Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 09:36:20 AM EST
I guess I'm still suspicious that even 3" with the two tongue in grooves will support the weight, but they appear to be (+/- the bowing you're seeing..). I figure the notching for the ends helps stabilize it, but over the long length..

Anyway, what's the plan for the big/small side ? You don't need a lawn-mower, obviously.. 



Long length by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #4 Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 10:00:39 AM EST
Is where the bowing is, but only at the front.  Three of the logs just don't sit right as they were pretty twisted down their lengths.  We did what we could when building; I'm hoping that in time the twists will ease with the weight of the roof.

MBW sold me on the idea of having a recording studio to put my guitars and computer in, with a bit to put my tools in to keep them out of inquisitive little fingers, and a workbench with a vice.  No shed is complete without a workbench and vice.  We could also put a sofabed in there for when relatives from Oz come over - hence the floor and ceiling insulation.

Then MBW decided she wasn't going back to work.  Once childcare is taken into account, we'd be 500 quid a month better off (can't claim a single benefit for MiniBreaker other than family allowance at ~£20 per week) but be rushing around dropping off and picking up Monday to Friday.  Which would be more stressful for MBW as I'm away from home a fair bit for work; I agreed it was probably for the best.

In any case the benefit of MBW going back to work if we had a second child would be negative because of childcare fees (not pregnant at this point), so a couple of years or so wouldn't make too much difference to the family finances.

I digress, MBW was aiming at keeping her hand in by doing some freelance work, for which she really needed an area away from a baby who'd starting crawling and was finding her laptop, printer and paper samples tasty and fun to trample on.

So the recording studio became a design studio.  Which I suspect was MBW's plan all along!

Subtle are the ways of women.


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Next time by anonimouse (2.00 / 0) #10 Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 01:29:48 AM EST
Get a shed with a second storey


Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL
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That'd involve planning permission by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #11 Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 05:51:50 AM EST
Which would involve the local council.  Bearing in mind it took them 10 months to allow me to take a non load bearing wall out, I'll be retired by the time permission to build 2 storeys comes through...


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There must be an easier way.. by dmg (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 05:14:13 PM EST
MBW sold me on the idea of having a recording studio to put my guitars and computer in

Like this for example... 
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it places the lotion on its skin by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #9 Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 09:45:05 PM EST
or else it gets the hose again..

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That was pretty much what I had in mind... by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #12 Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 05:54:40 AM EST
MBW has different ideas however...


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