Well, a month later and I am still without a shed. Hopefully next Tuesday the installers will come and start putting it up. Apparently they’ve been really busy. Maybe by Friday a huge shed might be standing in our backyard waiting to be filled with stuff.

What’s been happening the last 4 weeks? Well, after we knocked the shed down, we had to clean up a bit, we cut up some of the pieces of wood that was left in piles. We made a lovely wood shelter from the old tin sheets that we removed from the roof of the shed. Like our handiwork?

We also had to hire a jackhammer and concrete saw to cut off 30cm from the long edge of the old concrete slab because it was completely hollow underneath due to excess water running along the edge over 30 years. That took some work. We filled two skip bins with concrete boulders.

The dogs were very confused about where the shed had gone:

After knocking off the side of the old cracked slab, we had to hire a mini digger to remove the dirt from underneath where the pavers were pulled up. We were going to do this by hand but quickly realised we would kill ourselves, so in came the Toro Dingo to the rescue:

Then once the area was all flat and the mounds of dirt had been removed, in came the concretor guy to box the area up, place metal mesh (reinforcing) over the old concrete slab and then pour in three truck loads of new concrete. Here’s the finished product:

As you can see, we have had a lovely new fence installed along the back.

I can feel that we’re almost there. After all this, we’re due for a break so we’re shortly heading off to the central coast of New South Wales for 3 days where I’m booked in for a nice back and shoulder massage. Then when we come back it’ll be work work work again moving my boxes of business stock from the storage unit into the new shed. Woohoo!