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CPUShack
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| feipoa wrote: | | What paint type was it? Seems like all the big brands think they are the best, but I'm not really sure how much this matters. We ended up with Sherwin Williams' Duration product for the outside. |
The Green is Duration. That’s some of the best paint. The trim is SuperPaint also by SW
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Meterman
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Regarding choice of flooring... if concrete was an option, would you take it?
The shed where I keep my meter collection has a wooden floor, but partly being in an odd location in my backyard and the local rabbits using the space under the wooden floor as a warren has me seriously thinking of moving it to a better spot AND changing the floor to concrete (I may put down some thin plywood over the concrete as a floor covering).
That and the shed will have to be torn apart and redone soon... all the 1x trim (1x4 / 1x6) apparently was NOT treated at all before painting!  |
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feipoa
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I ran chicken wire down my shed bottom to prevent the rats from nesting. Instead, the rats decided the wood pile was worthy of nesting in.
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CPUShack
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| Meterman wrote: | Regarding choice of flooring... if concrete was an option, would you take it?
The shed where I keep my meter collection has a wooden floor, but partly being in an odd location in my backyard and the local rabbits using the space under the wooden floor as a warren has me seriously thinking of moving it to a better spot AND changing the floor to concrete (I may put down some thin plywood over the concrete as a floor covering).
That and the shed will have to be torn apart and redone soon... all the 1x trim (1x4 / 1x6) apparently was NOT treated at all before painting! |
I built this on an existing concrete pad, it over hangs about 8" off the pad but the majority is concrete, Still could have rodent issues but the cats keep them mostly inline
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cuttingedgecs
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| Meterman wrote: | | Regarding choice of flooring... if concrete was an option, would you take it? |
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cuttingedgecs
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| Meterman wrote: | | Regarding choice of flooring... if concrete was an option, would you take it? |
Concrete can have its own issues depending on the mixture you use and your environment, where wooden floors are more forgiving. It can also draw up moisture from the soil, and the dust that wears off it is caustic and so can be bad for electronics. If you plan to use concrete I'd recommend sealing it with paint or epoxy to prevent these problems. I've also done well in the past by using concrete forming plywood as a floor. It comes pre-coated with an abrasion resistant and waterproof plastic, so it withstands spilled chemicals, water, and animal activity quite well. I use it for shelves in sheds for the same reason. |
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CPUShack
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Bought a door yesterday, strangely enough no one in town actually has the part needed to properly install it (sill pan) so I found one on eBay LOL
THEN I can start moving stuff in (I suppose eventually a door knob would be a nice addition)
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feipoa
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Was it not a pre-hung door? They usually come with the sill pan, but are sometimes missing the brick mold.
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feipoa
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Oh my, what is that? I don't recall seeing one of those on the 4 doors I've ordered in the past, from low-end to high-end doors. I also don't recall seeing one of those where the old door frame was.
I guess this would have been a good item to have under my shed's door to keep the bottom from rotting out. The shed door in particular gets a lot of rain.
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I guess this would have been a good item to have under my shed's door to keep the bottom from rotting out. The shed door in particular gets a lot of rain. |
Thats exactly what they are for, I had not done an exterior door before, but a sill pan like that is code in the US and was even in the instruction for installing the door, dunno about Canada but seems it should be
There isnt one on the back door of my house, which is why the floor is rotted under it LOL
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It is possible that the under sill guard isn't required in Canada if the roof over hangs more than a specified amount, or perhaps if the floor is foundation. I don't know. The code changes all the time anyway and there are US-Canada differences that you may find surprising, e.g. look up the min. required water heater set point in US vs. Canada, it is very different.
My front and back doors are on slab and don't get much, if any, rain on them. Same for my sliding door, but my shed's door gets so much rain that I see the floor inside the shed wet. Although the flooring in there is 3/4" green treated ply, the framing is not, so this will be the eventual rotting point.
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Makes sense, one of the guides online mentioned porches but pointed out that some day the porch may be removed or altered, and really its cheap to do so I figure why not lol, and I want the best protection for AVICC stuff
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| Wasmachineman_NL wrote: | | H3nrik V! wrote: | | CPUShack wrote: | Started some shelves
The main things I want to put in the shed
1. All the boxes too large to fit in your normal drawers
2. Trade chips that are in Trays and tubes, sorted by manufacturer (I have hundreds of trays/tubes LOL )
3. Overstock of NIB Processors
4. Probably some of my collection of NIB/DevKits/Book
5. All the NEC Proserva dual Pentium Systems I have left LOL |
I'm still considering buying one, but ..
1. Shipping ..
2. I think my wife would notice 
(On the other hand - if I can get it delivered to somewhere else, she might not notice a slight change in "the stack" ) |
That a T3400? Nice, wish I had the room for a T7500. |
T5400 according to the badge .. |
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