Just copied this over from my blog
Hmmmmm, 4 days off go by so quickly!
What was once the pallet shed… has now been re-branded the pallet palace, and not by me! lol
Just wanted to say a massive thankyou to am couple of people first
Jess and the kids for a lush weekend and still finding spare time for me to go to the allotment and graft
Norman for first of all the free wood and bits and pieces, and also for the lend of the black and decker scorpion saw (the railway sleepers were no match)
Aaron and Martin for their hard work over the last few days, the foundations of the pallet are really coming together, the shed which is now going to be around 10 foot by 19 foot in size, needs as good a foundation to build the base and then the walls on
Iain for the free wood again, they will be awesome for the roof joists which I needed
Also to Bill at J.W Pallets, fingers crossed I have 70 1000 x 800 wooden pallets hopefully being delivered to the allotment tonight, and I have a few people to lend a hand to get them there so that’s fantastic
Friday
Friday was an early start, after a phone call on Thursday from Norman, I was able to pop up to his new workplace and get a load of wood that was due to go in the bin which will be fantastic for framing around the windows and the door, so off up to walker to collect it and then back to the allotment to drop it all off, trip to my mam and dads for an hour (soon became about 4 hours and lunch but it was lush)
The afternoon was free, so off to the allotment, and what a start, we organised the base, under the idea of the new plan, we extended it over the original path and dug out the soil from the top bed, and we put the pallets down, 19 foot by 10 foot after measuring it, eek!!
We decided after walking on it, it had to change, it was too lump and uneven as it was to start building on, so it all had to come off, and it had to be flattened, properly, and then paving slabs placed over, so, the hard work began
We also started to attack the 3 sleeps that we had to cut down from the other building in next doors plot which overhung onto mine, something a saw wasnt going to sort quickly
Saturday
Saturday again was filled with a trip to Tynemouth market in the morning, and then more allotment work in the afternoon on the foundations, this time with Jess and the kids coming up aswell. We also had a good go at the sleepers, and managed to get one down, only 2 more to go aswell as a platform.
Sunday
Sunday was spent trying to organise our pallets, with a few complications we werent sorted, and didnt have enough of one size to move any further forward, so the day was just spent with the kids instead
Monday
Monday included an Easter event that we had organised at church which took up a chunk of the day, but with a glorious afternoon with the sun out, we were back off the the allotment again, armed with the scorpion saw that norman dropped off on sunday and the generator we were sorted, the rest of the sleepers and the platform were down in no time and the foundations were just gaining more speed after ripping apart the plot at the end of our block which is just a dumping ground and getting the additional paving slabs which we needed
I think the allotment now resembles a building site more than an allotment, lol