My brew-shed

[Quiet_Man]

Great thread LE! and nice job!

I'm standing here, supping a brew and staring at my garage. Never been a car in it. Since the house was extended, can't get a car down the side. It's just sitting there, full of junk (and a small area set aside for brewing). But, what if?

Picking up a fridge/freezer tomorrow to put in it, which will require some clearing. But what if? I'm just in from bottling my IPA, but know now its not worthy!

Jeez, wish I'd never read it now.

[Shanna]

Great thread LE! and nice job!

I'm standing here, supping a brew and staring at my garage. Never been a car in it. Since the house was extended, can't get a car down the side. It's just sitting there, full of junk (and a small area set aside for brewing). But, what if?

Picking up a fridge/freezer tomorrow to put in it, which will require some clearing. But what if? I'm just in from bottling my IPA, but know now its not worthy!

Jeez, wish I'd never read it now.

Get rid of the junk and extend the space We all produce bad beer sometime (or maybe its just me). Instead of feeling unworthy use it to motivate yourself in to cleaning out the shed and follow his example. Who knows Lord Eoin might find some spare time to drop around and fix your place up once he has finished his own.

Shanna

[LordEoin]

Yeah, just go for it.
Dump anything that's junk. Sell/give/donate anything valuable but unwanted.
You just have to get into the mindset of distinguishing between valuable things and things of value.

[Quiet_Man]

But all my 80's vinyl?

[auralabuse]

Picked the wood part up on adverts imark,  the rest as in the cooler,  taps etc were from all over

[DEMPSEY]

Right so you talked me into it. Skip arrives next Monday and the build begins.

[LordEoin]

Good man! Be ruthless in your skippery.
Handy Hint: have a pile of 'shite I dont want but too good to chuck' and let your friends pick from it. Then when they come to take stuff you can trick them into helping you with some of those 2-man jobs.
What's left in that pile is probably not too good to check after all.

I decided to fork out and get proper tiling adhesive anyway, and while I was there I picked up another couple of packs of tiles because I decided "in for a penny, in for a pound" and I might aswell tile the whole floor and not just the foot areas.
Total cost of tiles and adhesive: ~€60 (still need grout though)
I also picked up an electric tile saw for 40quid, but I'm not counting that in the shed cost because I'll be needing it in the house eventually to finish up a few jobs.

I didn't realise how poor the floor was until I started working with my face a foot from it.
it seems that whoever built the shed originally just put a layer of rocks down and plastered as thin a layer of concrete over them as possible. In some places where I tried knocking out some bumps my air chisel went straight trough the floor into holes a mouse could spelunk.
So there's another few patches of concrete gone in and I'll have to wait another week or so before I can fit the rest of the tiles.

[mcgrath]

Right so you talked me into it. Skip arrives next Monday and the build begins.

Cool.. free skip outside Dempseys on Monday. Hope you paid the extra for electrical goods hehe!!

[DEMPSEY]

No problem with the,  what goes into the skip . I have a 10 second rule in which the many things that are possibly still handy and so kept are still waiting to be handy 10 years on. I pick them up and they need to make me believe that over the next 10 years they will become handy or else. My family are feeling uncomfortable because they know I have done this before . Did this to my Dad once and he came home to find all the crap gone from the shed. He actually fell back with the shock and after my mother got over the shocked look and then the lost puppy look and then his rant over all the crap that I had just dumped, she had one of the best laughs ever. . Still remembers it 30 years on.

[LordEoin]

my favorite way to get rid of 'stuff I might need later' is pile it all up and then pour petrol over it and set it on fire.
There's nothing quite like burning perfectly good stuff  to make it useless.
Ad once the match hits there's no change of heart later.

[DEMPSEY]

Have already started. De shed is now empty and next Monday De shed is no more

[Will_D]

Pictures Please

[LordEoin]

Yeah, pictures please. we want to know what's in your skip so we can sneak over in the dead of night and do a bit of skiphunting

[DEMPSEY]

Tricked yis cause I got the skip today.
Tuesday  the shed was empty'd
Wednesday  the demolishing began
Thursday skip arrived and was filled with old shed and garden crap.

[LordEoin]

This thread started with the rebirth of my shed and has led to the death of Dempsey's
RIP Dempsey's Shed!