Tuesday, Aug 01, 2006 at 16:12
Glad you asked Gramps, never shy to talk about the 'Taj Mahal'.
Caufield green clourbond 9m x 7.5m with a wall height of 3m and 15 degree pitched roof. 100m reinforced slab of high-strength driveway mix concrete. 6m x 3m opening via sliding doors to the driveway, 3m x 3.5m slider to the 'washdown' bay. Drive in or drive through - take your pick. All alarmed and keyed alike locks.
Mains
water (19mm), plumbed dunny, laundry trough, 30amps cabling (no 3 phase to house darn it), steel welding bench, too many power points, skylights for natural lighting, reloading bench, tarp suspended on rails to make a spray booth..... Out side sound proofed compressor running into a 6 outlet wall mount manifold,
water tank with a tap inside, two fridges, tinny am radio, no phone but wireless two way intercom with two neighbours and a
gate through the neighbours fence for important shed business. A pot belly slow combustion stove with stainelss steel flue and a small wall mount aircon over the workbench are going in too. Gantry crane is on the cards as
well.
It has taken a world of pain to make this happen. It is 1. oversize, 2. over height, 3. has no offset (ie; it IS the fence), is built over the 'ministers sewer' so it has to have
Water Corp exemption and approval as
well as special council planning and building approval. Underground it sports 11 x 230mm diameter reinforced pilings under 500mm cubed poured concrete footings to support it as per the required consulting structural engineer's drawings and the signatures of all 4 surrounding neighbours to allow it be built.
Am I looking forward to this.....yes, yes I am. I have worked like a demon to make it happen and have wanted something like this since I was a child.
Yippee!!!
FollowupID:
443584