milled in the Spring, fitted today

[difflock]

A bit of weatherboarding, in a nod to the Muslim faith(the Persian Rug makers) I deliberately left my mistake at the bottom left.

Perhaps because I cut the boards as thin as possible, and left to season lying to the North over the summer, non of the ends split.

I still need to finish the top and  add more screws, then to be treated with cresote tomorrow or Wed.

Edited October 15, 2018 by difflock

[westphalian]

Necessity and endless supply of wood coupled with high price of preservative has meant in the past 12 months I’ve built a lawnmower shed, a shed for my chipper and a drying deck, all with green wood and no issues whatsoever. I’m gonna build a man shed with seasoned wood but thought I may as well go ahead and do some decking with fresh spruce. What’s the worse that can happen?

[difflock]

Oddly I had toyed with the notion of simply affixing the fresh cut boards, with a screw at the bottom only, and a more generous lap/overlap, then put the rest of the screws in after it had weathered/seasoned.

But I chickened out.

[westphalian]

I shiplapped the lawnmower shed with 1” thick spruce and no significant warping after a year. Still water tight

I did have to reposition the padlock bolt by less than a cm though

 

[westphalian]

My half finished drying shed, all with green wood bar the roof. As soon as I mill it I fix it. The middle two decks for drying timber, the ends for logs

Will have it finished in 3 more trees[emoji41]

 

[difflock]

How did you "do" the roof btw?

[westphalian]

18mm plywood covered with felt. I couldn’t wait to cut planks as my temp drying tarp blew away[emoji26]

The wind didn’t do much good for the sycamore either [emoji23]

[difflock]

See images, 

As I was washing the (probably) 20 year old salvaged polycarbonate on the inside , I became aware of odd noises, kinda like between a creak and a ting, outside.

So I went and looked, the cresote had very quickly found the incipient stress fractures, in the Polycarbonate sheeting, at the screw fixings, and "went to town".

So fast as to be almost unbelievable.

The polycarbonate "washers", pictured,  freely fell away when I unscrewed the screws.

That vintage cresote sure is good stuff!

 

A re-thunk is now required.

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Edited October 16, 2018 by difflock

[westphalian]

I don't understand. the creosote damaged the corrugated  panels?

[difflock]

Nope, the flat clear sheet of polycarbonate,  top right like, obviously the polywotsit plastic polycarbonate disnay like cresote.

 

Edited October 16, 2018 by difflock