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Drnick:

--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on May 12, 2018, 10:09:06 am ---I have paving stones on the ground off the deck leading to the back yard. (mostly so people don't step on a land mine left by the dog) :)

some are cracked, the ground slopes a little also but only by about 3 inches. still the stones are not level and i'd need to get some earth in there to make them level.
Or a lot of pea stone and some timbers.

Thinking of making a wooden path instead now.

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Glad to see the thread was useful to someone :)
Shouldn't be too hard to lose 3 inches with a walkway, depending on how short/long the walkway is you may even be able to get away with 2 x 4's

Drnick:
So it has been a while since I updated the garden work, so here we go another bunch of updates:)

I always knew I needed somewhere to put all my tools so got to work on building the shed, But before I could begin the wife wanted me to get a hot tub, so we did, I could have done without it as I ended up having to work around it but what can you do, Happy wife, Happy life :)

Here it is all filled up and ready for use as a plunge pool (It takes so long to heat up that its almost never hot)

She then wanted me to tidy up the front of the house so I got on with that. Didn't take more than an afternoon and is almost 0 maintenance.

Now onto the shed, Once again I was a bit lazy with photo's but managed to get a few during the build.

Base built, Designed with internal dimensions of 6ftx4ft

Walls built, approx 5ft5 high by 6ft long

Starting to frame the front, Made door height 6ft because I am fed up of cracking top of head on doors that are not quite tall enough.

Cladding started and pretty much complete.

It was round about now that I found that the unit would not actually fit where I wanted it to, At this stage I had to remove about 7" from one side of the base and the entire back of the shed. I chewed though my skillsaw blade doing this, but managed to get it cut down to size where it would fit.
I then set about putting roof trusses in, of course setting the door to 6ft and chopping 7" off one side meant it looks a bit odd, but it is functional.

Got the boarding installed to the roof, clad the front, re-board and clad the back again after the shed had the trim.

Finally built and installed a door, installed shelving and hooks etc and started to fill the shed, I need a bigger shed :) Here you can see why I built it with a 45degree pitched roof, I wanted to maximise storage for all the random boxes the wife has collected over the years. I knew my tools would take all available space at floor to 5ft 5 level :)

To finish off this particular stage of the garden makeover I installed some new fence panels to match the ones the neighbour installed a little while back. This was fun as we uncovered a ground wasp nest which had to die before I was going to install any posts/panels.

So thats where I am at currently, still to do is renew the lower deck, move the hot tub down to renewed deck, install gazebo, remove walkway and install new stairs from balcony. Being a one man team in the current english weather means everything is being done in slow motion but it is getting done.

Mike A:
What in the crap are you doing? Where is the ground?

Drnick:
The ground is gone, I have no use for it (Other than to support the deck) I don't do weeding at all and the wife can kill plastic plants (That is not too much of an exaggeration either.) As you can see from the first pictures it wasn't exactly Kew gardens :)

I do have a couple of large planters up on the balcony which are in full bloom and healthy enough though. And if I want to go see some green green grass and trees I can walk 500 yards up the road to the back end of the local forest.

In place of the ground I now have a level workspace which without the hot tub in the way will be about 15ft x 15 ft and another of about 10ft by 10ft. As previous to that I would either have to work in the kitchen or under the balcony which is at best 8ft wide x 7ft long x 8ft high I'm gonna go with ground loss :)

Ian:
I looked at everything, and I still don't know what you built. This isn't about all of your hard work, it's about me not figuring it out. :laugh2:

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