The Man Cave...

... and the Screw Up

The husband has wanted a big shed for as long as I can remember. Or maybe just as long as our junk started overflowing from the current garden shed we have. Either way, once we found out the maximum size allowed on the block, there was no question - the shed was to be the maximum size possible, no matter what. If it meant we would have no floor cover straight away to get the shed happening, that's what we would do. It would be only fair, given I have been granted the lovely walk-in-robe and kitchen inside the house. Thankfully, we didn't need to make that sacrifice, and the man-cave (shed) was booked in as soon as the finance was approved!

The shed contractor has been slightly hard to manage. The initial contact was great, but trying to co-ordinate him to book in his concretor to coincide with our earthworker so that the siteworks weren't completed and then left sitting there.

We finally managed to lock in a date, booked the siteworks, and then we hit the stump mentioned in the last post. We had the stump removed, and got everything back on track. Siteworks were completed Thursday midday, with the formwork due to be completed Thursday afternoon. Thursday afternoon arrived, so we did our usual site visit to inspect the brick progress and noticed the formworkers were still on site. We popped up to the shed area and immediately noticed an issue.

The husband has designed a thickened area in the concrete to suit future plans, which is supposed to be installed central of the roller door, which is to be positioned directly in front of the driveway coming off the corner road. Somehow, the shed manufacturer had managed to get the long and short sides of the shed mixed up and distributed these plans to everyone without us knowing, meaning everyone's setout was 90degrees out. 

Luckily we caught the formworkers when we did, as they had only set out the external perimeter, but we still didn't like being the ones who had to break the bad news to them. We took them back some beer for the trouble! 

So, concrete had to be put off, and earthworks adjusted to suit the right plan. But we got there. The shed man received an email pointing out his massive mistake, and he has now advised he needs to resubmit the drawing to shire to confirm the orientation, and that the concrete won't be poured for another week, but this isn't a huge issue. We're just glad we are *those* clients who visit site so often, because if we weren't, we may have been ripping up concrete instead of just a couple of pieces of timber!

A visit this afternoon has the slab formed, the plastic and mesh laid, and just the bar chairs needing to be installed, ready for the concrete to be poured!

Happy Man in his future Man Cave

In better news, the bricks are almost finished! If the bricklayers do a decent days work on Monday, they could finish. The roof timbers are ready and waiting, so we may even have a roof starting to take shape by the end of next week! 

Woohoo!