How many building consultants does it take to put up a shed? Well, if it's two, something is bound to fall through the gaps in their thinking. It might be that we deferred to each other, it might also be that we were too busy chatting to really pay attention, but after young John left I noticed the rear panel was upside down. If you can imagine roof tiles, and how the courses are lapped to shed water, the laps to the weatherboarding were clearly the wrong way up and open to water ingress. It was two days before friends, Nick and Rosie, came by and Nick helped me flip it over.
Sometimes there seems to be just too much to think about but passing tasks to others is a luxury we can’t afford. In some ways, despite my homespun philosophy of self-reliance, I think it would be better to get a man in, someone who knows what’s what with a thing because he does it all the time. Then we can each think about a thing, develop skills in our own field, and act as pieces in a jigsaw - the whole being bigger and better than the sum of the parts. Then I remember I’m a building consultant and weathered enclosures are kind of my thing, so there are no excuses.
Anyway, let it go, flick hair back, the shed is up at last. The bikes and garden things are out of my workshop, I’ve even installed a storage rack given to me by old Vince, source of the shed. The rack has tilt-out drawers which I’m thinking of using to store bits that come off the bike, in sequence, top to bottom. This will help me to reassemble parts and fixings, when the time comes, correctly and in the right order. Ever mindful that the new baby is due in a few weeks time, that this project is likely to extend through the winter and that it wouldn’t do to lose track while otherwise occupied. The DIY-way is littered with the road kill of projects gone bad due to loss of focus and momentum, I don’t want this one to be another.
