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I was just focusing on "cheap"! ?

Bigger pallets can yield decent lengths of "shed" wood. Can be a bit of a mission to break them up successfully without a pallet buster.....like the one I made: (It now has the addition of a couple of strategically placed springs to stop the angles tipping forward).

This is my next shed:

I'll be burning them if my heating oil delivery doesn't get through! ?

Hope so, I'm due to collect fourteen 1500x1000 pallets! The shed in the photos was made by someone with little or no woodworking skills when he started. Just nudged in the right direction.

Get any free pallets can you? OK, the cladding did come from a neighbour with a log mill.

Just put your wallet on the end of that outboard leg! ?

Wasn't me, @pocster visited!

Found a good few 100mm Celcon blocks lying around, more than I thought I had. A bit of greenery on them, a few cuts and corners knocked off a couple where the faces have spalled. Some stock bricks too. I reckon I've enough to do a 3 sided dwarf wall similar to what I did for the original shed. Two things I'm concerned about though: 1) How to stop damp coming through them? Angle the dirt away, a bit of membrane tacked to the walls, French drain, gabions filled with flints etc? 2) The return corner where the pipe for (possible future) electrics is, that'll only be like a foot or so long then a doorway. Worried about an opening door cracking up that brick / block work corner...put the hinges the existing shed side? Hope that makes sense I'm on the 5.5% St Austell IPA!

F***ING crow / pigeon decided to run across the slab! ?

Bit more done. Forgot to take a pic with the A142 mesh down and bit of 4" soil pipe set level (filled with EPS), in one corner for future electrics. Just glad the mixer wasn't petrol/diesel:

Sounds like my loft. The stoat would have been chasing the pheasant.

I did. Debating the Screwfix deal.

Well these appear to be w@nk! Bought a pair in July. Used at the weekend in my genuine Makita impact driver. One failed instantly. The second has one bar but put in the genuine Makita charger and though it appears to start charging the red fault light soon appears. Only a matter of time before it dies I guess. 2X 18V 5AH BL1850 LXT Li-Ion Battery For Makita BL1840 BL1830 BL1860 Cordless UK 88381464123 | eBay 2 x 5.0AH 18V Battery for Makita BL1850 Li-ion. For Makita194204-5,194205-3,194309-1,BL1815,BL1830,BL1835. for Makita BML184, for Makita BML185,for Makita BST221Z, for Makita BTDW251Z,for Makita ML185, for Makita TD140D, for Makita TW251D. www.ebay.co.uk I've contacted the seller. Not getting my hopes up. Did get a lead on hopefully cheap, genuine Makita batteries. Rang them up. Scarce on the ground. A few months ago he was doing 5Ah for £50 - 60. All he could offer was 6.0Ah genuine Makita at £85 +VAT. Reckons it'll get worse/prices going up as some issues with lithium. B@ll@cks to that, looks like I'll be digging out my corded and extension lead like in the old days.All part of the grand Chinese plan I reckon, make the West reliant on this stuff then turn the tap off!

I know a bloke who ran his plastic water pipes through 25mm galv conduit...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/15/zen-and-the-art-of-working-from-home-japanese-builder-offers-mini-office-kit?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

I've a selection of stainless steel tubes here in different diameters. Happy to send you a length. I could even weld a big flat washer on top. It'd last indefinitely. What diameter is the gate pin?

I'm thinking floor stat probe thingy!

Can't that just be a bit of UFH pipe capped off under the floor?

Do take care if bending down, weeding, hedge trimming etc that you don't smack your head on those studs sticking out of the posts. Are they M16 (needed a 24mm spanner)? If so I've some plastic nut covers that might help stick on the end, with a nut, I could post you. Tbh I don't know if it's normal to cut them down?

Got a photo of the tube and plate? I'd be casting those into a little concrete plinth set level with the ground. However, you want to avoid sharp edges on that bit of concrete or it'll rip the side out of your car tyre! Knock up a bottomless, little wooden box with some bead round the top to create a chamfer maybe.

I could do with a couple of jumbo bags of "genuine", black tar scalpings or whatever they're called. When I dug out for my gate power supply I had to break through a layer of it on what is ostensibly an unmade drive. At one time it clearly had a layer of this stuff down. The previous owner "topped it up" with fire ash. Given the number of rusty, burnt angular ring nails that come to the surface periodically (and lodge in our tyres ?) burning pallets was a thing. I've been left with a nom 300mm wide, 13m long depression in the drive that needs filling. Come winter it'll just be mud! Found some seemingly legit road planing places in the Tunbridge area that might sell me a couple of bags if I transport.

Old post/poster but did you ever have a go at making your own panels?

All true.