Great blog Guy, top idea building with your son, I started out my build the other way around.....inviting my 70y/o Dad to help out.
Good luck with the Cobra Pit!
Guye....So has KEVIN had a stay of execution!!....gauging by the meter relocation!!...Great to see you barrelling ahead with it...are you keeping count of those bricks???..
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Shed complete
LoBelly and a few others asked how my shed was going last week at the monthly club meeting, and I mentioned it was finished. I was chastised. Quite right too.
No pictures = didn't happen!
So here you go. More details on the blog if you want.
Pretty well did everything myself, except screed the concrete (chickened out cause its a bit hard to fix that if you stuff it up!).
This toy was fun for the day!
The roof structure.
The roof decking.
Prepping the floor. (Last minute the night before the concrete was due to arrive, of course).
The scary bit for me (glad I had a builder mate who knows how to screed).
Some more internal structure now the floor's done. I installed LED lighting throughout so vision will not be a problem. Well until the bar fridge goes in anyway.
And some shelving plus a decent strong work bench. Plus the tool cabinet I got for my birthday last year.
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Oh, and in the last picture you might just be able to see my CobraCam on the wall to the right of the strip light.
This partly for security, but also to track the cobra build progress. Hopefully, if I do it right, I'll collect thousands of images which I will be able to stick together to make a time lapse movie of the build when I am done!
Currently it is triggered by motion (and also change of light). Here was Tuesday's snap.
I finally got the gas meter relocated. That was a BIG hurdle.
I started demolishing the existing shed, and set a footing for a retaining/bracing wall today.
Had mini-me cleaning the bricks - he is ken to get started on the Cobra too, and saw this as a way to expedite things. I also paid him 50c a brick!
Inflation! I remember when I was a kid, our neighbor jackhammered his backyard patio and then paid me a nickle a block of concrete to carry them from the backyard uphill to the street in front.
Seriously though, your "shed" is looking AWESOME!
It,s coming along well Guye, won,t be long before you hear the pitter patter of little Cobra feet on the floor.
Funny enough, my first job in 1964 was cleaning bricks on a demolition site for 8 quid a thousand. If yourson requires training in the finer points of brick cleaning get him to look me up, I am easily recognised, I,m the dude with his fingers worn down to the second knuckle
Coming along nicely there. If your Cobra-cam is anything like mine then over the course of a few years you wil end up with thousands of pictures of your Cobra sitting in the dark, and about a dozen of you actually working on it
And occasionally some blokes might drop by to confirm that, you are, in fact, not doing much
Looks great so far. Looking forward to following the progress, especially with the camera. When you are done it should look something like this
Thanks, again to Craig for the loan of the camera. And I had to do plenty of messing around to ensure that there wasn't too much footage of just hanging around or head scratching.
Great video Geof. I like how the engine seemed to lower itself into the engine bay without any guidance!
It was also interesting to see the "to do" list on the whiteboard fluctuating throughout.
Very cool!
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