Sheds from salvage

Someone here posted a photo of a shed built using reclaimed or salvaged materials. Can anyone suggest a book giving ideas on this and other projects?

 

try this out linlin http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Shed-Build-Like-Pro/dp/1561586196/sr=1-1/qid=1165655912/ref=sr_1_1/203-0476195-2828716?ie=UTF8&s=books

 

hi all try this link it shows loads of different thigs to build, http://www.buildeazy.com/greenhouse2.html#4

 

Its great to build your own greenhouse or shed the only drawback is how long will it take to finish it. I suppose if you keep at it all day and everyday it will be built in no time but if you are going out to work all day, it will take a month of sundays to get it finish.
Any views or observations on this folks? :D

 

What a useful site, Windygale! Now bookmarked! Many thanks :D

 

Fancy,
You should be able to get the frame built (from scratch) and erected over a weekend.
Finishing it completely will take a bit longer

Windy,
That`s a great website.

The inspiration for my picnic table came from there and the wind hasn`t managed to shift it yet, 220ft of 2x4 timber weighs a fair bit :D

With that greenhouse plan, you get 80 sqft for 100m of timber.
You could just as easily build a 220 sqft greenhouse with the same amount

 

Super site windygale. Thanks.
Now all I need is lots of wood!

 

It took me about 2 weeks of solid work dawn to dusk to convert a brick and concrete pig sty into a approx 4m x 2m GH. This included demolishing a 3 inch concrete roof and some massive coping concrete, lowering some walls and raising others. I also cut my own glass for many of the windows (others were recycled windows) and had to spend a bit of time planing the rough sawn wood I bought for the frame.
I spent the whole of my Easter holidays on it and went back to work so weather beaten that someone asked if I'd been skiing in Switzerland.
The total cost was about �£120 about 20 years ago, but it's still standing and just about as good as new.
Pig sty (and little piggies) Before

GH - After

 

Thanks for those links. MOH has been talking about a chalet thing in the garden and as he will be retiring next year perhaps he could do with a project!

 

very nice Dave W. what a great achievement.
hmmmmm 20 years ago? I bet it will take you longer than 2 weeks to build that GH now. You have done a great job there my friend. well done.

 

10 out of 10 for the refurbished Sty Dave

And this is what I call salvage. The frame is made from metal windows and a door from the Secondary School in Bodmin (10 years ago ,ish)and the timber from Army 'issue' pallets.(REME).
It's 6x8 and is double lined,topped with a sheet steel roof! :D

 

Cor your's has style Nick. Not another like it!

Whoever said "you don't get owt for nowt" was wrong. :D

I got the main central pane of glass from my dad when he replaced a double glazed unit, most of the other main panes came from when we had our own windows replaced. I was however stuck for the rest of the glass. But the day and expense was saved when a local lorry driver looked over the garden wall and said he'd seen what he thought might be packets of glass fallen from a trailer and dumped in a layby. I scooted off in the car and found he was right and less than half the glass had been broken!
The wooden base foundation layer on top of the brick is old teak or mahogony colliery headgear. :D

 

Amazing buildings Dave and Nick. Me I have a chalet shed - could be used as a summerhouse, but I use it as a shed - and no its the camera thats tilted, not the shed. Twas made to my spec - following the demise of a previous one.

 

Well Fran your specs were pretty good. It looks a lovely horticultural hideaway.

 

If it wasn't used for holding my lawnmowers etc, could be quite nice as sitting space. My spec was very rough based on what I had had before, but the standard of build was better. My last ones felt roof got ripped off, and the timber damaged in a storm. Got tiles instead of strip felt - that should last a bit.

[ 21. December 2006, 10:42 PM: Message edited by: Fran ]