- Plan your shed base
You must have a sturdy base for your shed, otherwise the frame won’t stand properly and could stop the door from opening. Decide whether you’re going to have:
- A concrete base laid on hardcore
- Concrete slabs on sharp sand
- Treated wood beams on hardcore or shingle
- An interlocking plastic system
- Treat wood with preservative To help your shed last as long as possible, you should coat all the wooden parts with timber preservative before you put it together.
- Put the shed floor together Some will need more assembly than others, but you need to make sure that the floor panel is attached to the joists; follow the manufacturer’s instructions for the correct spacing.
- Put up the shed walls
- Mark the centre point of each wall on its bottom edge, then do the same for the shed floor so you can line them up together.
- Stand the gable end on the base and line it up. Check that it’s vertical with a spirit level – you might need someone to support the panel while you do this. Use a temporary holding batten to keep it in place.
- Fix a side panel to the gable end panel with countersunk screws, then add the second side panel in the same way.
- Fit the roof
- If the shed comes with a support bar, put this in position before you put the roof panels in.
- Nail the roof panels in place, ensuring there’s a parallel and equal overlap at each end.
- Roll out some roofing felt from front to back, leaving a 50mm overlap at each side. Secure it with clout-headed felt tacks at 100mm intervals.
- Apply mastic sealant to the outside corners, then fix each corner trim with 30mm nails.
- Add the fascias and finials, predrilling 2mm holes to avoid splitting the wood. Nail them through the felt into the shed using 40mm nails.
- Add the shed windows
- Slide each windowsill into the tongue and groove cut out, then put the window cover strip in position, fixing it to the vertical framing.
- From inside the shed, put the glazing sheets into the window rebates, making sure the bottom edge of the glazing sheets sit on the outside of the sill.
- Fix the window beading on the top and sides with 25mm nails.
- Fix the walls to the floor Before you do anything, make sure you check that the centre marks on the walls line up with the marks on the shed floor. Then fix the wall panels to the floor with 50mm screws, aligning them with the joists. And that’s it! But if you’re not confident in building a shed yourself, there are plenty of professionals available who will be happy to help.
Avoch
Avoch is a harbour-village located on the south-east shore of the Black Isle, on the Moray Firth. Ormond Castle or Avoch Castle was a stronghold built on the site and worked as an imperial castle to William the Lion; handed down to the Morays of Petty after that Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, upon his marital relationship to Joanna de Moravia in 1362. Offspring of Archibald, were to take the title of Earl of Ormonde from the castle. Legend has it that the village was founded by survivors of the Spanish Armada. Avoch was in the control of David Chalmers, Lord Ormond from 1560/61 but he surrendered his castle as well as control of Avoch in 1568 when he was ousted because of his part in assisting the escape of Mary Queen of Scots. The castle and village after that passed to Andrew Munro of Milntown. Intrepid Scottish-Canadian traveler Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the very first European to explore the wonderful Canadian river currently referred to as the Mackenzie River, crossing The United States and Canada twice, to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and Pacific Ocean in 1793, retired to Avoch in 1812 where he passed away in 1820 and also was buried in the old Avoch Parish cemetery. Avoch was the area of Rosehaugh (Pittanochtie) House, an enforcing mansion house till it was demolished in 1959. A considerable house existed on this site considering that 1790. Craigie Well at Avoch on the Black Isle has offerings of both coins and clouties. Rags, woollen and also human hair were additionally made use of as appeals against sorcery, and also as tokens of penenace as well as fulfilment of a pledge (Sharp 1998). Much of Avoch's riches has originated from its angling industry, and it stays a considerable contributor to the town economic situation, with several big angling watercrafts had or crewed from Avoch as well as an energetic fishermen's co-operative based there. The harbour is no longer made use of by the larger boats for touchdown but is used by leisure craft and also boats taking visitors to see the dolphins in the internal Moray Firth at Chanonry Factor. Along with the angling industry, commuting to Inverness and also tourist offer earnings to the village. Lazy Corner, named for the young people who collected there to pass the time, has been relocated by the road widening in the Eighties, and spruced up by a sculpture intended to include character to the town. It is still a meeting place.
