What "man jobs" have you done today?

sigma said:
Nice, how many hours do you reckon that took in total?
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i reckon around 30hrs.... because some weeks ive not done anything due to working and the warmer weather, i hate working in the heat. i mean the first half of the shed i built the structure in around 2hrs, the structure of the extension took just over an hour as its just cutting and screwing. There's really not much doing in building a shed tbh.

The reason it took me over 8wks in physical time is because i had to remove a greenhouse, an old shed and rebuild the fencing. Then remove all the old stuff to clear the space.
 
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The Angry Welshman said:
i reckon around 30hrs.... because some weeks ive not done anything due to working and the warmer weather, i hate working in the heat. i mean the first half of the shed i built the structure in around 2hrs, the structure of the extension took just over an hour as its just cutting and screwing. There's really not much doing in building a shed tbh.

The reason it took me over 8wks in physical time is because i had to remove a greenhouse, an old shed and rebuild the fencing. Then remove all the old stuff to clear the space.
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Is that 30hr including the old shed removal etc?
 
sigma said:
Is that 30hr including the old shed removal etc?
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no its not including the old shed removal etc.....that took a good while as there was a lot of decking to remove and a lot of trips to the skip to get rid of it all. The clean up of all that was longer than the shed build.

i mean if we take yesterday, i clad the shed extension in 16 pieces of 600x12220 11mm osb in around 2hrs
 
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- Took a load of rubbish down the tip
- stopped off at the vintage car meet at the local garden centre on way back from the tip :)
- packaged up something I sold on the MM ready for posting tomorrow
- made 1 good CCTV camera (uniview 5mp 2.8-12mm varifocal) out of 3 poor ones I'd "rescued" from work.
- hoovered and gave the interiors of both cars a quick spruce up
 
200sols said:
A basic shed is a pretty good project to learn on though if you're a beginner. It's all basic stuff and you can learn to use a variety of tools etc.
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True, if designing it yourself as well though, there's a lot to learn IMO. I don't have 60+hr to spend on a shed unfortunately (probably spend too much time on here TBF).
 
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Shifted 17 tonnes of 20mm aggregate from the front my mums house to the back. Started Friday evening finished today. For an on going garden project she has going on.
 
sigma said:
True, if designing it yourself as well though, there's a lot to learn IMO. I don't have 60+hr to spend on a shed unfortunately (probably spend too much time on here TBF).
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mine was designed around the roof needing to fit 8 solar panels as per the photo, with at least 200mm space all the way around. So the roof is 5.0mtrs x 3.8mtrs....

shed is 2.8mtrs x 4.6mtrs, so that keeps me withing the 15m2 allowed
 
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Spent most of yesterday doing misc. plumbing jobs.

Despite cleaning the F&E in October it developed a soup/like skin that I was fortunate not to suck in to the system.

Fitted the magna clean, capped some pipes where a rad has been removed, moved a few other pipes and knocked this up - which joins in to the new kitchen. Didn't realise it was imperial 19mm pipe :o so tonight's job is to fit some 3/4 to 22mm adapters then solder it up.

Fortunately found the F/R on the landing to tee in to otherwise this was going to need punching through two walls and behind a toilet from where the boiler is pictured.

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The Angry Welshman said:
just for reference to, the shed i built cost less than £800 in materials to build. So no idea why garden rooms cost 10k+ to build
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Because they are designed to be screwed together on site in a couple of hours? Also because the company that make them presumably have some liability if if they collapse and harm someone.

More to it than just the material costs.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Probably the £3000 bifold doors everyone seems to puts in them to start.

Not to mention the labour costs for someone to build it for you.
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Armageus said:
Because they are designed to be screwed together on site in a couple of hours? Also because the company that make them presumably have some liability if if they collapse and harm someone.

More to it than just the material costs.
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so the people on here building them by themselves, paid others to build them... make that make sense
 
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