Thread: Garden Sheds

Crikey that's bloody nice!

Originally Posted by Headworx

^Does the mud hut containing 2 stone axes and a flint in your backyard stand out in Portland?.

2 stone axes?

Requirements will always be excessive in whom antediluvian frivolity is atrophied.

Or some thing a little bit smaller.

Originally Posted by HuangLao

The ideals of being reasonably self-sufficient seems to have passed you people up.

when you move out of ludditeville you may find that pre cut kits produce less waste - it is the price you pay for tecnological advances

Anyways so went and ordered me timbers for the shed today. Should be here by the weekend.

In the interim did a bit of the 'ole sanding and varnishing. Crappy old outdoor table that has been bugging me for ages.

Will give it another coat and it should come up ok:

Ant, nice to see you getting grain showing - most wood you see in thailand gets coats of caramel applied until they are sufficiently satisfied that you can't tell if its wood.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Ant, nice to see you getting grain showing - most wood you see in thailand gets coats of caramel applied until they are sufficiently satisfied that you can't tell if its wood.

Yes unfortunately made the same mistake with my bar top way back when and the 'stain' was more like a wood colored paint.

Much prefer the wood grain look too.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Much prefer the wood grain look too.

I worked for a furniture restorer in the holidays as a nipper and he always used methylated spirits on the bare wood to check what the grain would look like before polishing.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

methylated spirits on the bare wood to check what the grain would look like before polishing.

Oh yeah never heard of that must remember to give it a try next time.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Oh yeah never heard of that must remember to give it a try next time.

The point with the meths is that it dries off with no residue and its what they dilute shellac in french polishing with, but the reason is to determine both grain and colour depth to determine the level of colour tint required when making up the french polish - works great and you can keep applying it without fukin the surface up.

This all reminds me but quite the busy day today actually.

When I wasn't being a fat stupid computer bitch or whatever I also had a crack at the chairs. Made a bit of a rod for my own back in that after doing the table it made them stick out like dogs bollocks so they needed a freshen-up also:






Also made some pretty good progress on the shed. Will post more on that later though, give tunk and the NTD lot a chance to calm down first.

I'd hate for them to stroke out over my little home improvement projects.

Good work, looks great.

Next TD meet up at Ant's!

Thank you.

Yes I'll host, all are welcome, pay no heed if you and tunk are given a different address though.

Ant,

I'd use some oil on the wicker, keep it a bit supple and stop it getting too brittle. Tung oil or believe it or not use some old frying oil, boiled veg oil is what used to get used. Be sparing and burnish back.

Ok nice one, cheers, I'll give that a go.

I was actually wondering about that and had no idea what to do.

Was thinking of doing the same.


So got the Mrs to do it while I sat around drinking.

That's pretty impressive. Don't think much of the color scheme though. Or the lazy focker that filmed it all without helping

"easily upset over things like garden sheds"

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Originally Posted by stroller

NumPrik & rAnt, who woulda guessed?

Get him to do the painting for you, Tony.

It's a wooden garden shed, you don't paint it.

Maybe you've had enough drink for one night eh?

More garden shed ideas/advice/photos......

So anyways, diversions from emotionally unstable garden shed triggered drunken little people aside, I cracked on into some more work today.

Firstly finished off the chairs although will also look at refurbing the wicker thanks to the great tip earlier. Got another pair on front balcony and they could defo use it:




Also dug out the area for the stone garden where the shed is going to go, lined it and filled with stones and leveled. Shed will sit on top of that.

Encountered some pipes which means I couldn't go as deep as originally planned so now have way too many stones for infill leftover.

Looks like I've got another garden project coming up.















Finally to the shed itself (although it's probably more accurate to call it a garden cabinet).

I've been framed!





Puns, I've got them.

I used some highly sophisticated 3D-modeling software to indicate on the image where the doors and handles will go. So realistic and life-like it's amazing.

Also a couple of tips that I learned from varnishing that furniture:

1. use upwards strokes where possible, helps to remove any runs; and

2. invest in a good quality brush.

As regards #2 I didn't and basically just gave up picking stray brush hairs out of the coat in the end.

Ant, have you just created a stone filled pool? somehow water will get in, i'd make a few holes in the plastic.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

i'd make a few holes in the plastic

Yep all good. Not evident in that one pic but I scored 10-12 cross cuts into it before I added the infill.

Full disclosure... The wife reminded me of that as I was about to blaze ahead.

nice, i'm going to stop reading these look how much work i got done whilst you were sat around feeling sorry for yourself threads.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

look how much work i got done

Make no mistake about it this is very much the exception not the rule.

Have surprised even myself with the time I've spent off the sofa these last couple of weeks.