Shed to Deck

After several years of planning, we've finally taken down the shed. When we moved in, we were a little baffled by the choice of location for the shed: straight outside the kitchen window. It's not the loveliest of things, with faded/worn paint and a grubby roof. Then we discovered the roof was increasingly leaky, and there were rotting patches in the floor (which covers several mouse houses, I suspect) and walls. However, it took until earlier this year to sort the contents of the shed (which was, despite lack of aesthetic charm, vital storage space) into the garage, and fill the shed with items with varied destinies: installation in the garden (trellis, wall thermometer, clock), council recycling centre (old mattress), scrap metal merchant (old bike frames) or resale (the old fireplace). This made a different problem: sorting these things to their future homes. We almost managed that on Saturday. The to-the-tip stuff is actually to be collected by the council; the scrap metal will go there next Friday, when we're on leave; the others have, once again, been moved back into the garage. You can't win them all. This did, however, mean that we could take down the shed! It was a nasty job: the roof has been re-covered at some point, so there were several layers of grit/felt/tarred fabric to remove, and the frame isn't really designed for dismantling. Accordingly, it's taken all day, but the shed has gone. Not far, mind: the sides are now covering the wood stack, the roof slats are merely piled up, and the base is still in situ. But it's a vast improvement. Customary before vs after photos, showing the base-cum-decking:

From the back door (© Ian 2012)

From the corner of the patio (© Ian 2012)