Building the 24' x 12' Solar powererd Shed Project. Aiming for the total materials build cost to be < £1000. excluding Solar pannels and internal fixtures. Except for the 60 Kitchen end plates to be used as shelf bought from B&Q at 10p each and 25 pairs of Glass shelf supports at 50p each. Every thing will be at regular prices. The aim is to build using 8 x 4 sheeting bolted together in a modular form using coach bolts. Thus alowing for expansion / alteration.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Day two putting the sub rafters in.
After some thought I changed the pitch of the sub rafters from 600mm to 400mm as the insulation can be used with 400 and 600 spacing. Some grainy night time phone pictures of half of the base with all the rafters in place.


Monday, March 15, 2010
Half of the base is built
Here is a picture of half of the base frame. It is made from 3.6m x 150mm x 50mm CLS timber main rafters that are supported by 75mm x 75mm posts fitted in to 600mm steel fence spikes.
The base will then have secondary 63mm x 38mm CLs Timber rafters every 600mm.with 100mm of recycled plastic bottle insulation between each rafter.
The base will then have secondary 63mm x 38mm CLs Timber rafters every 600mm.with 100mm of recycled plastic bottle insulation between each rafter.