It’s Gone!
(No, not the greenhouse)
In some of
the previous photos, you might have noticed that the old shed had one wall
still standing – if you can call it that – more like hanging on by a thread, if
the truth be told. Anyway, it was pretty dangerous – being old and heavy, it
could have done some serious damage if it had landed on someone. In case you missed it, here's a reminder:
So despite
this being the greenhouse project and not the shed project ;) I decided (with a
lot of help from OH) to take it down. In addition, I wanted to keep the back
panel in place if at all possible. The old shed was an add-on. The garden wall
that extends from the front of the garage was not actually high enough, so when
some previous owner decided to build the shed, they had to create a panel to
raise the height of the wall to a suitable roof height. Anyway, it is now less
likely that the wall will fall down and less likely that the panel will
collapse with the weight of the wall hanging off it.
Inside the
shed there are two brick pillars. They used to hold up a sink (yes, there is a
drain beneath the debris between the pillars).
The sink is now in pieces on the
floor. This happened some time ago – local youths ‘having fun’ as usual L
So we are
about ready to have that bonfire – the pile is quite….erm…..high!
I was asked elsewhere how we did the job and how long it took. It looks like a major job, but in fact, with two of us working at it, it only took a couple of hours. OH took the wood apart using a crowbar and I spent most of the time supporting wayward beams and planks and running the debris to the bonfire. The wood was pretty rotten for the most part so the joints and nailed sections came apart quite easily. So altogether, not as hard as it at first appeared.
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