An excellent July afternoon today for construction, 24.3 degrees C. then cool in the evening, something like spring in the Alpujarras. We may be able to use the storage shed for air curing hams in the coming years...
Isabelle remarked that she "Could see a difference between our shed and the ones in B&Q" which is quite something. Yes, it's a dog eat dog world the world of shed construction, the B&Q shed has it's materials pared down to the barest minimum, any less and it would collapse under the weight of it's own roof. Mass production with a heavy investment in woodworking machinery being the only way to combat the small margins.
Material costs of 'The Shed' have spiralled, quite naturally, beyond the purchase price of any B&Q shed. In reality if shed manufacture was to provide a living, we could add on 100% to the materials, then labour three days or more, paint, ironmongery, roofing felt, sundries.
The completed shed would retail for approximately £2000, a factor of 10 greater than the B&Q matchwood offering. From the catalogue buyer's perspective the two sheds would appear identical.
4 comments:
Wouldn't it be cheaper to put the hams in the larder? If you built a shed in my neighbourhood, all the snakes would move into it.
I was only refering to the current similarity of our weather with ham curing regions of Andalucia.
B & Q sheds are a bit like disposable razors, not like a certain Editorial shed I remember that required contractors to be called in to bring the edifice down.
Those people were misguided fools that learnt the hard way, they should have left well alone.
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