Phase 5
Placing the columns in place
Saturday 4th February 2006
The day has finally come to erect the shed columns, activities commenced in the late afternoon with 4 columns going in with no problems, an impressive feet given the potential for the hold down bolts to move around.
Sunday 5th February 2006
The last of the columns have now been bolted in place and the construction site is taking on a different look quite quickly. Frank the neighbor came around and helped with the last column the only one of 10 which didn’t fit ( the bugger). This stubborn column was finally resolved with some simple filing of whole to make the gap bigger.
With time left before things went dark the neighbors even helped to install and bolt in the side purlins – the site is now truly starting to look like a shed now… next weekend is the target to finish the frame
Sunday Feb 12th 2006
A 9am start was when the challenge to Bolt/Lift the first of 5 trusses commenced with installations of the roof purlins a dream.
The team pictured below mustard around early commencing work before Peter even had his first can of coke.
Adrian (AKA Harv), Frank, Peter, Graham
The first truss was slowly lifted to unsure the engine hoist would take the weight as depicted below.
The hoist was then moved into place (thanks to those fantastic wheels) so the truss could be list in place and then finally bolted in place
The first truss took about an hour from start to finish – however with a proven technique developing the others took even less time.
The second truss
The third truss
The fourth truss
The fifth truss
Having started onsite at 9am the final truss was installed before lunch at 12.30 which was considered a good effort by all. Thanks again to the “Erection Team”
The Purlins
To support the roof cladding, purlins are bolted to the roof trusses. Each of the purlins is a continuous length of 13 m weighing approximately 100KG with holes pre-drilled to align with the trusses.
It was an engineering feet, however peter worked out a way to move the crane to life the purlins over the trusses into the right spots which were then bolted in place. Pictures below indicate some of the work at hand.
To everybody’s relief the holes lined up as expected which was exceptional.
The day concluded about 4pm with a good nights sleep was enjoyed by all!!
Shed Frame Ready to GO!
Now the insulation starting on the East wall, with the first sheet about to screwed on. The right hand photo is the east and west walls are done, and now it time to start the roof.
With the walls on, the sides of the shed, it is now time to start the roof. As the peek of the roof is some 4.8m above the ground, the sheets are .48 colourbond and quite long.
The insulation going under the colour bond makes it impossible to see the purlings so all the sheets have to be pre-drilled. This is when you find out if the frame of the shed is square or not, as the holes will not line up for long if the shed is not square.
After all was said and done, the shed was square, well about 3mm out over a 14m distance, this may have been due to the stretch in the fibre glass tape measure.
With all the wall sheets and roof sheets, about 2000kg of colour bond was delivered and had to be moved up the drive way that night. The largest pack was 600kg and was 7m long, those were the sheets that went over the hobby room. Once again the engine hoist came in handy. Dianne and I moved the sheets with out too much of a problem in about 1 hours.
Shed Doors
The shed doors, well if you have done some shopping around for a shed. You will know that the shed builders don't like to make swinging doors, as they tend to bend in the wind.
These doors on the other hand don't have that problem, unless your wind is at cyclone rating. They are made from 30x30x3mm wall tubing. Each door is around the 30kg mark with no cladding on them. When you add the cladding well it gets a lot heavier, and very hard to handle. 3 very heavy duty hindges are used to swing the doors. They move with any effort at all. Harry the 18month old son has no problems pushing them open or closed. That is until the fingers get in the way and he as only done that once.
The hindges are each secured on by two M10 countersunk Stainless steel bolts with nylock nuts on the back. The way the hindges have been set up they can't be removed while the doors are shut. Soon to be installed are 4x 16mm drop bolts to secure the doors when they are closed. However for the mean time the two 16mm chain loops and huge padlock keep the doors from opening.
Drying out the Cellar
For many months, the cellar was looking like a swimming pool, the only things lacking was an easy way to get in and out of the pool, and the bar side service that you get at a resort.
With the trusty sump pump in place, and 4 hours of pumping, the cellar was empty of water except the small about that just layed around waiting for evaporation to take place.
Since the cladding was now on the roof, it was going to take a while for that to happen. So the only thing one could do was once again use the engine hoist and hand the large pedistool fan from it, and blow air into the cellar.
The only things to do now were to put on the last bits of cladding and the two doors.
The other week I was looking at the surpluss building material place looking for some things for my mum's house. When I found a couple of doors that would be great for the shed. Both are solid timber and around 50mm thick.
Needless to day they weigh a lot, and to try to hand these doors on the type of hindges you get from the hardware store would just not work out.
Well there was only one thing to do, go and visit the locksmith, with a bit of looking around, the price change between locksmiths is best described by the flasher the office looks, the more they will charge. The difference to get a lock keyed up to be the same ranged from $60 per key to $10 per key. I would prefer to keep the $50 per key in my pocket.
The locksmith at Port road hindmash was the best on price, not only for keying up locks, but also for supplying a new lock for the door. As one of the doors was set up for a mortice lock, and it came from a comercial building. The only way to get a lock to fit was to buy the same type of lock. I was begining to think my cheep door was not so cheep. But still the hindges only cost me around $5 each. That is for a ball bearing hindge that can handle the weight of the door.
Well the most expensive locksmith wanted to charge me $350 for the lock, then another $150 for handles for that lock.
My port road friends wanted tocharge me $150 for the whole thing. So once again a bit of shopping around does pay off from time to time.
As you can see the shed door has worked out great. The swing and close with out any problems. I just have to put the door seals under each of the doors and finish off the flashing to the hobby room door and it will all be done.
As you can now see, the shed is to lockup, and now the preasure is off a bit. All I have to do is finish off the insides. The hobby room, cellar and workshop are of the shed. So as this work progresses please have a look at phase 6. At least now it looks and feels like a shed.!