Buckingham Pallets

[wynne]

Thank you. I know what you mean about the regular flimsy garden shed. I'm not sure building with pallets makes for the most efficient use of a small space, but any would-be burglar is going to have to get through about a foot of wall (pallet, insulation, 2x layer of OSB (internally and externally) and then pallet plank cladding externally).

 

[Betsy]

Any burglar with a conscience would break in and leave you something..

 

[raidan73]

Following this one

 

[BOBU]

Very cool - like the recycle/repurpose. Had never thought of this approach to space creation..... very, very cool.

 

[novocaine]

Thank you. I know what you mean about the regular flimsy garden shed. I'm not sure building with pallets makes for the most efficient use of a small space, but any would-be burglar is going to have to get through about a foot of wall (pallet, insulation, 2x layer of OSB (internally and externally) and then pallet plank cladding externally).

no thicker than a single skin brick wall with insulation though. My head won't let me do this with pallets though, I'd want to break them down and make frames and stuff. I can't help it, but lucky for me my wife agrees.....

 

[markoc]

I'd be the same, methodically taking them to pieces, cleaning them up and building a frame, then cladding with them - which is absolutely the antithesis of what is being achieved here. Really interested to watch how this develops, it looks like a fab project.

Will the coke can fish scales weather with time?

 

[wynne]

Well, my thinking was that pallets provide ready-made section of wall. The only problem is that the space I had to work in wasn't neatly pallet-sized.

To backtrack a bit, here are a couple of photos I put in videojetman's original thread, showing the build "process", haphazard as it was .

The sleepers laid down as foundations were placed on some large blocks of slate and I used rubble from the demolished flower beds to create a rough floor. I then put the salvaged 80m insulation on top of that and the salvaged ply on top of that. Not exactly textbook but should be dry and warm.

The skip opposite our house, while our neighbour had her house refurbished, yielded approximately six full boards of OSB, two sheets of ply and enough insulation to cover the floor (albeit all of this was in lots of ragged sections). The window and corrugated tin sheeting were given to me by a builder friend.

Not sure how the recycled fishscales will weather. Not even sure which way round to use them. Silver side or beer label outwards? Or alternating rows?

I have decided not to run power out to the shed but to invest in a Festool portable power station (which I can charge indoors from our existing solar panels and I can also use for other work).

It's been such a wet summer that this has taken me way longer than I hoped. Still waiting for a few of the scavenged bits to dry out before finishing, but nearly there.

 

[novocaine]

wasn't slating your approach, was slating my own foibles.

 

[Gtpulse]

Splitting pallets is boring and hard work don’t blame you for using them whole! I’m really tight and didn’t want to pay for skips after many deliveries that turned up on pallets. I burned the corner bits on the log burner and a mate took the good slats away for woodworking. I still had loads of Indian hardwood crates/pallets left over from garden patio/paths projects. Used the upright parts which are about 65mm square to make the framework for this garden store/shed. The slats made the sides/floor/roof. The only thing I had to buy was some of the metal hardware, a few lengths of CLS and a sheet of ply for the doors. The feather edge was leftovers from fencing.

 

[bikeworkshop]

The fishscales could alternate like roman clay tiles.