What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[diamond lil]

Just reading this - have any of the London preppers got plans for flooding? maybe time to work on that..
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... tion-taken

[jennyjj01]

[Yorkshire Andy]

Next major mission for us is to dismantle and repair the shed, which is looking like an expensive prospect indeed.

See you need a pallet buster

[Yorkshire Andy]

First load of seeds in the propergator (spl) tomatoes put some bigger ones in this year for making tomato base to freeze to make spag bol / Currys / chilli

Along with some Naga chillies as well why not they make a fun barter on the allotment and a few thrown to the chickens act as a dewormer... (They fight over them)

Plus bedding plants to save on the eyewatering prices down the garden centre

[ForgeCorvus]

Next major mission for us is to dismantle and repair the shed, which is looking like an expensive prospect indeed.

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See you need a pallet buster

I recently rebuilt one of my sheds and almost all the cladding is pallet boards (your frame can be much lighter for the same security as the planks are quite thick compared with average shed cladding)

All my planting troughs are built from pallet boards, as is Herself's potting table.


Having now had a look on Evilbay, perhaps I should make some pallet breakers up for sale......


Yorkshire: I don't like the look of the roof on the top pic........ Unsupported tin sheet like that is just begging to go flying

[jennyjj01]

[jansman]

I would advise putting your shed base onto 3” tanalised fence posts as bearers. A pallet wood base won’t last three years if it’s in direct contact with the ground.

[Yorkshire Andy]

I would advise putting your shed base onto 3” tanalised fence posts as bearers. A pallet wood base won’t last three years if it’s in direct contact with the ground.

UC4 grade direct soil contact ask the merchant what grade it is before buying if they can't answer walk away

[jennyjj01]

[Yorkshire Andy]

I would advise putting your shed base onto 3” tanalised fence posts as bearers. A pallet wood base won’t last three years if it’s in direct contact with the ground.

Thanks. It was actually the shed floor and bottom few strips of cladding that rotted dramatically. When it was put up about 15 years ago. the bottom supports were totally in contact with a flagged base. Big mistake! I'm thinking of sitting the base joists on bricks, still on top of the flagged base, to give lots of ventilation. It's mostly the base that needs replacing and the bottom foot or so, and some of the frame. The roof was never water tight, so no surprise there's floor rot. A new like for like shed would be well over £1,000. I'm hoping repairs and a pretty thorough rebuild will be less than £200* and give me another decade.

*Plus £30 for tools

Bricks.. then a roofing slate where the wood sits

As for the roof once built use a torch on felt ideally you need a BIG propane torch but you can just about get away with a blowlamp on a warm wind free day.. you heat the felt as you roll it on think of it being a post it note the strip you heat becomes sticky heat roll heat roll the stuff sticks like stuff to a babies nappy the wind can not get under it and rip it off if it's stuck down guttering is a must .. if you can treat the wood before you build it...
. totally against any environment rules but old engine oil with a splash of diesel keeps the wood sealed for 3 years + my chicken coup was beading water off nicely an hour ago .. Vs the allotment shed that was treated with ronseal fence paint last Summer