New Shed- WIP

[JDub]

Had a busy weekend filling up my shed :)

Last weekend I put in some tall metal shelving bays I scored at a very good price second hand (its not what you know, its who you know:cool: ) they are 2.4 high so fit nicely against the 2.7 walls.

I also put up a peg board and moved in power tools..... left all the garden stuff in the other shed so I have plenty of room (although it fills up quick doesnt it :rolleyes: :wink: ).......

Ahhhhhh, I love my new shed :2tsup:

[RufflyRustic]

Hi JDub,

Glad to see you are having a great time settling in.:2tsup:

Those vermashield pictures are very interesting! Any chance on letting us know what it cost you?

Cheers
Wendy

[JDub]

Hi JDub,

Glad to see you are having a great time settling in.:2tsup:

Those vermashield pictures are very interesting! Any chance on letting us know what it cost you?

Cheers
Wendy

Hi Wendy, wasnt much about $100-$150 for the whole shed.... About $10 a metre I think.

[RufflyRustic]

Brilliant!!! Thanks!

Cheers
Wendy

[TimberNut]

is the vermashield stuck down? siliconed or anything? or is it just put in place then the sheets put in place to hold it there?

[jmk89]

Joel

Love your shed - just wish it was mine!!!

The envy is gettting too much for me.

Cheers

Jeremy

[JDub]

Thanks Jeremy :)



is the vermashield stuck down? siliconed or anything? or is it just put in place then the sheets put in place to hold it there?


Nope not fixed at all, the sheets hold it firmly in place. :2tsup:

[DJ’s Timber]

Looks great Joel, those shelves fit in nicely between the columns

[JDub]

Looks great Joel, those shelves fit in nicely between the columns

Yer perfect actually DJ :2tsup: more good luck than good judgement ;)

Got the power issues sorted out with your shed yet?

[DJ’s Timber]

Nah, being a bit busy and have also been dragging my a#*e a bit as well, still have to fill & submit the paperwork. When it comes to paperwork, it can get pushed aside and can take me a week or 2 to finally sort it out.

Looks like I will have a couple of free days this week and will get onto it then.

[RufflyRustic]

JDub

MANY Thanks for posting the info about the vermaseal. :2tsup: I've just amended my order to have it included. Well worth the few extra dollars!!!

Cheers
Wendy

[JDub]

Electrician is at my place this morning, before I left for work I helped him chase the main 6mm cable from the switch board, under the house (very tight squeeze in some spots!) and then to the shed sub board .... I should have power on the weekend!!! Wooo HOoooo :2tsup:

[TimberNut]

so what cable has he run to subboard? just 6mm twin with separate earth wire? or 6mm twin+earth?
Not running 3-phase I take it?
did you run anything special at the main board? new 80AMP main switch or anything?

[JDub]

so what cable has he run to subboard? just 6mm twin with separate earth wire? or 6mm twin+earth?
Not running 3-phase I take it?
did you run anything special at the main board? new 80AMP main switch or anything?

Its 6mm twin + earth (same cable).... nope not running 3 phase, I dont really need it.

Not sure mate, I ran all the wires and conduit, mounted the lights and points and am letting my electrician sort out that stuff. He is good electrician so I let him do what he thinks is best. :wink: :cool:
All I know is there is a new safety switch on the main board then the 6mm cable runs to the shed to a sub board with 4 circuit breakers on it.

Joel:2tsup:

[TimberNut]

thanks for that. should you remember, and have a chance, can you ask him what main switch you run?

basically, your street supply goes into the meter box - through huge fuses, then to your meters, then to a main ON/OFF switch. From there, to each circuit breaker and then to that circuit.

effectively you are adding 4 shed circuits through one circuit breaker at the main board. these all go through that main ON/OFF switch increasing the load going through it.

Either your existing main switch has enough capacity to cater for it, or he'll put in another main isolating switch for it.
Just wondering what he was going to do.

Then again, if this is all too much to remember, don't worry. I've gotta discuss with an electrician anyways when I finally get around to building a decent shed (one day...)

Cheers.

[JDub]

Nah dont worry, Im following you :wink:

Im 95% sure he isnt putting in any isolating switch, Im assuming my existing main switch has enough capacity to handle the extra load.

I will ask him though if I remember. :D

Cheers
Joel

[JDub]

Well its finally all done, its been a long road but the shed is finished!!

My electrician was round on friday and wired up all my points and sub board for me :D

Pic 1: The sub board, I just mounted some 12mm ply and ran the conduit though the face, I was orginally going to go through the wall girts but my cheap hole saw wouldnt cut through the metal.... this worked anyway and turned out pretty neat and my electrician was happy with it. The single point next to the board is a 15a point, in case I need it in the future.

Pic 2: The lights mounted, I went with three double fluros for the main lighting and one double fluro hung a bit lower for above the workbench (pending, workbench will be my first WIP in the new shed)

Pic 3: the ceiling plugs the lights are mounted too, some clever fella on the WWF suggested doing this in case I ever need to add extra lights, that way no need for an electrician, just a double adaptor.

Pic 4: Enjoying a well earned beer in my new sanctuary :2tsup: note: only one chair as per the code :wink:

[Waldo]

G'day Jdub,

Top stuff, good to see the priorities worked out too - you've got something done so you crack open a beer. :2tsup:

Now it's time to get some dust covering everything and shavings all over the floor. If you don't know what the stuff looks like I can post a photo for you. :D

[RufflyRustic]

Congrats JDub! I wish you many happy hours in your shed. :2tsup:

cheers
Wendy

[Harry72]

Nice shed mate, came out well in the end.
Agree with Waldo... time to get the saw dust flyin!

[DJ’s Timber]

Good stuff :2tsup:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Venetians? :oo:

[JDub]

Venetians? :oo:

2nd hand ones :- , sun streams through the window and on the hot days cooks anything on the bench under the window..... at least they aint pink curtains :wink: :D

[JDub]

Update, I finally got my stormwater for the shed sorted.

It is now officially finished! :2tsup: :2tsup: :oo: and my wife is now officially a "Shed Widow" :wink:

I will post some updated pics shortly of the stormwater and DIY watertank set up (hopefully soon anway.... my home PC died so Im just waiting for the new one to be delivered) :D

Joel

[JDub]

As promised here are the pics of my DIY stormwater/water tanks on the shed.... :2tsup:

1st pic is of the 90mm stormwater PVC running from the front guttering outlet above the window (at a slightly downward angle) to behind the shed where the tanks are.

2nd pic is the front and rear downpipes connection and it running into the top of the closest Drum. In the screw top lid of this drum I have installed a mosquito mesh water tank fitting) to trap leaves debris and prevent the mozzies)

3rd pic is of the actual drums. I have used 4 x 220L screw top drums. They are the type that they use to import olives in and cost me $30 each. I have fitted tank fittings in the base of all of them and sat them up on brick pillars. They are all connected together with 25mm PVC with a length running to the front of the shed where a gate valve/pump connection is.

This effectively gives me a 850L watertank that fits into a narrow space behind the shed.
Cost about $250 all up were an equivelant commerically available water tank that size that would fit in the space would have been $800 - 1000. Granted its not as pretty but its behind a shed out of sight so who cares ;)

[Waldo]

G'day Jdub,

It saves the money which is what counts. :2tsup:

I only wondered though that you now have 4 tanks, which won't give the gravity feed/flow as a larger tank. And. will you be installing a pump somehow that can be rigged up to whatever tank you want to run off? Or will you just rely on gravity feed.

[JDub]

Gday Waldo.... all the tanks are interconnected :2tsup:

Ie the water flows into one and in turn they all fill up together. So if one is 3/4 full all of them will be 3/4 full. If one is empty then they are all empty.... make sense?
In the last pic you can see the PVC piping coming out the bottom of each tank connecting them all together, effectively forming one large tank.

Because they are all linked together I only need one outlet. The outlet can be seen in the first pic on the side of the small shed. (the white PVC with the Red Ball valve).

I can use it to fill buckets etc or I have a 40L per minute water pump I can screw to the outlet for watering the lawn etc with the sprinkler....:2tsup: :wink:

[Waldo]

G'day Jdub,

:2tsup: Having to cock my head on the side I miss these things. :U

[JDub]

G'day Jdub,

:2tsup: Having to cock my head on the side I miss these things. :U

LOL, yer sorry bout that :- just turn your computer screen on its side you goose :p

I put another pic below (cause Ive got nothing better to do ATM)
Pic of the lawn in front of the shed... been using the tank water for about a month now and it seems to be doing the job:2tsup: Only problem is it needs to keep raining to keep filling the tank so I can keep using the water :(( :wink: esp when the warm weather returns

Cheers

[TimberNut]

Joel,

ingenious and good money saving idea!! Now that you've saved all that money, here's a modification you can make (to spend that money :U )

I saw this idea at bunnings the other day on a mock-up of a water tank setup, and thought it was very cool.

see bodgy picture :D .

The pipe goes down, from guttering, to about a meter from the ground, with a screw cap at base. The y-joint is up near the top of this pipe, with y-piece facing UP. Then through an elbow and back down again, to your tanks.

One of the main issues rain tanks have, is all the cr4p (and bird poop) off the roof of the shed gets washed into the tanks in the first few litres of water when the rain starts.

With this idea, the first 'flush' full of rubbish goes down into the capped pipe, and all the rubbish settles there. As that pipe back-fills the overflow (of clean water) goes through the y-joint then down into the tanks.

You simply wait for the rain to stop - unscrew the cap and dump the rubbish. voila!!

(well, I thought it was a good idea).:p

[Andy Mac]

I've enjoyed this thread jdub, well done!:2tsup: Now you've had a bit of rest, with the odd ale, its time for some output!

Cheers