Ebay 1098 Project / Shed Build

apparently it will still take another 6 - 12 months to get him convicted as there's so many people to get evidence from and hes proving hard to find.

of course not, the hid's were fairly simply its a bit of a faf getting the wires to run out of the head light unit as they dont go through the hole for the standard ones. i mounted the ballast on top of the lights. its not the most discrete place but they fit perfect with some of the 3m double sided pads. I cant remember where I got the under tray from. it was originally a race one I think as it doesn't have the tabs to locate into the tail unit so will need a bit of dremel handy work to get it in.

so..... with the abysmal summer we had the roof needed to go on. My brother helped me with the first 6 boards but by then end of that weekend neither of us had the energy to be able to competently use a hammer, saw or either sets of limbs so we called it a day. It meant i needed to do a few hours each night after work which wasn't all bad I managed to make the most of the sun we did have.





In 2 evenings I managed to single handedly finish the roof off. All 16 8x4 sheets and 4.8m lengths of 7"x2" i genuinely felt like id had the shit beaten out of me after all that but at least it was on and i could get started filling the gaps between the beams





I also while at b&q getting felt adhesive managed to pick up this solid oak door for £20 reduced form £300.



So considering the the closet id ever got to felting anything was this stuff


I gave it a go and considering the rain we have had there hasn't been a single drop come through


Because it was sealed now I started moving some of the bigger stuff in which put into perspective how big this is as the tool box it 72" wide

Now there's one thing that pisses me off about work shops and that's poor lighting so I dident skimp out. to start with I put up the three 5 footers i had just so there was a decent amount to work in but it is only about half what will be in there by then end.


more stuff moved in and work tops delivered. a nice little freebie from wickes for screwing up yet again.


hopefully i wont need to add any more work benches

so there was a slight miss calculation with the amount of cladding i needed for the door


next was storage again a nice freebie but this time for helping a friend empty their garage and anything I wanted I could have. 3 new cupboards 4 packs of tiles and all the grout and adhesive I needed.


so now every that i ride with knows ive got the ramp there were a few chomping at the bit to get their bike in for a service so

once that was done I got my tile on. Another first

another friend who did almost identical mods to his k4 as mine which i helped with


it started to look like a workshop rather than a shed

tested my polisher out :tonguewink:

 

it got to the point where i needed to get a lot of different stuff together at the same time as i couldn't put one in without the other so while i was waiting the 1098 got some well needed tlc. Poor girl had been neglected for a few months.



This then highlighted the areas where shadows were occurring when working so i got to work playing around with some different postilions of the tubes and this was the final plan


i also have 10 down lights to go in over the tool box and work bench



so the same with the wood half a tonne of plaster board needed to be moved to the end of the garden in pissing rain and wind

quickly started getting this in






now looking more like a room than a shed

 

cheers buddy, and no ive never been in any sort of building trade. was a mechanic for a year or so but apart form that always been in an office

 

Pee-po

looking good

 

Thanks guys. Its been such a frigging ball ache but now the end is in sight Im a lot happier and actually getting some sleep. As you've all seen i have a very large garden and also quite a big drive so im hoping come summer to have a bit of a gathering and a big ass BBQ so if there are any southern members you will be welcome.

I've now started on the ceiling and getting the keep warm stuff in.

 

well you need to pull your finger out and get one then ha ha

 

i will allow the RSV4 as it was either that or the 1098 when i was shopping for a new bike so i may have a bit of a perv on it for a while

 

so work has continued even in the piss poor weather. luckily it highlighted a leak before i put the ceiling up












luckily i had some help over the xmas period from a few friends. I invited them all over for a roast but dident mention the fact that to eat they would need to assist with getting the rest of the ceiling up. Although out of 18 18 sheets all but 4 i did by my self. Even the mother got involved. Just got some floor paint ordered so a few coats of that down to keep the moisture out should be done next week. Has anyone used epoxy floor paint on wood before? any words of advice

 

I'm going to take a sander to it if the test patch doesn't take but I have noticed that is not completely water tight as once its sat on there for 10 or so minutes it start to soak in. Ill probably try and get hold of some lino off cuts to go round the work bench and high traffic areas.

 

i got about 200 of them for free from my old office when they replaced the ones in the walk way as every a few drips of coffee from every person in a 400 capacity quickly makes a mess. im assuming you got them on ebay?

thanks I did think about that after we had finished it but by then it was a bit late