Ding dong! The witch is dead!

With a lot of help from our neighbour (he owns a very powerful chainsaw), we spent 3 big days over the Easter long weekend working on demolishing the shed and it’s now in pieces in a big pile waiting to be cut into firewood for burning in our heater this winter. Here’s some of the fun we’ve had over the past few days:

First step was to remove the sheets of zincalume from the roof of the shed.

We disturbed three possums whose house was in the roof of the shed. This last one didn’t want to leave, poor little thing (now he’s living underneath our house :(  )

Next was to call in the neighbour with the big chainsaw and start cutting some of those timber beams connecting the roof to the vertical posts:

Then we get the angle grinder and cut these heavy-as steel railway lines which connects the patio to the shed (yes, the previous home owner used old railway lines as supports for their patio):

Then eventually it looks like this:

We had to leave that back wallwith the funky wallpaper standing so as to keep the doggies in (that temporary steel fencing you can see on the left has now been moved over to the right, so if that funky wall came down, there’d be a big gap between our property and the paddock next door and Smokey and Cloe would be off).  Speaking of doggies, here’s one now, laying in the sun watching us do all the work  :)  :

Now we wait for the weekend when we go to the hire shop, pay our $80 and get the use of a concrete cutter for 24 hours, during which time we hope to shave 30 cm of concrete off each side of the existing concrete slab (why? because the edges of the concrete are crumbling and it needs a nice new edge on the side of the slab). Then next week we will have a concretor come with a truck full of concrete and he’ll make us a nice new concrete slab over the top of the old cracked one. Then we wait about 7 days for the concrete to dry (if there is no rain) and then we can have the shed company come and drop off the shed bits and pieces and then about a week after that we’ll have a new shed all ready to be used.

Then I can tidy up the back yard after stuff was just dumped everywhere and anywhere and perhaps build a little wood shelter for all this new firewood we’ve got!