Hi All, I have just redone the pictures in the last two posts as they were no showing. You will have to go to the on-line version of the blog to see the pictures. This is the link http://nealsoutter.blogspot.com/

If you have any problems please email me,

Neal.

You were right Dad (Leicher) :-)

Glue guns don't work for attaching cables to the wall, maybe next time I will listen to you :-)

Organising workshop (shed)

With Liam's help we made places for almost all my power tools and nail gun on the wall, so now they all have a place and can be packed away quickly. In the middle is a shelf for the screw boxes. And we also extended the clamps rack.

I made a shelf on the ceiling for the spray paint cans and under it are the silicon tubes etc. Each tube is clipped into a piece of PVC waste pipe, it was an idea from the storage magazine Dad (Soutter) gave me a few years back and it works really well.

Chicken coop artwork

Alison, Liam & Zac have been decorating the chicken coop, they have done more than in this picture so there will be more updates to follow.

The table has legs....

I got the new (old) legs on the table! As you can see I still have some bits of the recesses to strip of the old stain. I am not sure how we are going to finish it, any ideas are welcome.

Busy weekend at 78 Station Rd!

We had great weather this weekend and got lots done! Alison started painting the hen house.

Liam and I (with a little help from Zac) tackled an old tree stump in the front lawn.

During the week I finally got around to buying the wood for the huge fence panel I needed to build. So there was no excuses and with the aid of a few power tools and my nail gun (thanks Dad!) I put it together rather quickly.

This is the only photo I took of the finished product and the 'nice' side is facing my neighbours. But this gives you a good idea of what it looks like.

I also got around to spray painting more of Liams bike as the black bits where looking very tatty and needed a bit of TLC.

And the final project of the weekend was replacing the legs on the dinning room table, the current legs don't allow a person to sit at either end when it is in it small form. So I have finally found a use for the four table legs salvager from the skip outside Britvic many years back.

Re-tiling roof

Today, inspired by Waynes 'Just do it' enthusiasm, I stripped tiles out of the out-house roof and used them to close the hole.

This is how Wayne and I left the hole in case it rained.

Wayne and I had already cut wood into strips and re battened the chimney hole.

So all I had to do was put the tiles in, it is kind of like a game of Tetris getting them to fit.

I then retiled the outhouse where I had scavenged the tiles from, I used tiles but the only problem was they were carpet tiles :-) The back of them does seem to be very waterproof. I am thinking of sending the picture to the tiles manufacturer and asking them if I have installed them correctly!

Coop design

 
This was the Sketchup design I did that we built the chicken coop from.

Taking down the chimney

When I mentioned the chimney Wayne said, "Lets do it!". So we put pieces of plywood on the neighbours roof supported on foam blocks, we then covered with a carpet and tarp so that nothing would damage his roof.

 

Wayne then dismanteled the chimney brick by brick

 

I then had to take the bricks in a bucket down the roof and onto the flat section, and from there I could throw them to the ground. Alison and Liam helped by pilling up the bricks and junk that I threw down.

 

We got further than this photo shows but this was the last photo we took.

 

Chicken coop

I mentioned to Wayne that I wanted to build a chicken house, so he said lets do it! So on Saturday afternoon we built most of the chicken house out of the scrap from the Waterjet guys and the legs are from the steel (bedframe?) we found in the roof when Alison's dad was here.

 

 

 

Free scrap

I went to the guy who did my waterjet cutting for the spinning wheel and dug through his scrap pile and got a whole lot of stuff. This picture is the plastic/perspex off cuts I got with some 18mm ply.

The second picture is a sheet of glass from a reception window in a hotel (I think). I got this for the roof of the hen house.

And the third picture is a bundle of ply wood which we used for the hen house and taking the chimney down. It isn't very good ply but they are 101cm x 122cm and free!