{"id":6037,"date":"2022-07-11T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6037"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:51:29","slug":"home-diy-new-shed-build-4-sleepers-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6037","title":{"rendered":"HOME\/DiY: New Shed Build (#4!) – Sleepers Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Six \u2018B Grade\u2019 sleepers arrived this morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There was a very faint knock on our door at about 9am this morning. I\u2019m amazed I heard it. As I was busy drilling holes in an upstairs wall, to mount a little shelf for a DVD player, \u2018neath our bedroom TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DVD shelf brackets up; hardboard shelf is temp\u2019!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On going downstairs I spied a young lad with a lorry, with a crane on\u2019t back, and six rather knackered old looking sleepers on it. It is a shame they\u2019re B grade, in all honesty, as they have ruddy great cracks in them, splintered areas and missing chunks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unloading the sleepers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But we were given them, in exchange for my help with some manual labour. So really we\u2019re lucky to have them at all! Thanks, Ken, for helping us out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nearly there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two other jobs this morning: the above mentioned little DVD-player shelf in our bedroom, and (re)fixing – I already repaired it once – another knackered old drawer from a set of freebie (Freecycle this time, and ages ago now) chest o\u2019mc-drawers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The drawer in its broken state.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This set of drawers was full of my clothes till yesterday, as were two others. Leaving Teresa with just one set of drawers, and yet more clothes than me! So now we\u2019ll have two chests each, and I\u2019ll have mended us a drawer each in one of them as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The drawer fixed, the glue \u2018going off\u2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The heat today is ridiculous. I did some of the drawer fixing work out in the back garden. And now I\u2019m back indoors, buck naked and sweating profusely (I think at heart I\u2019m a naturist!). I\u2019m going to hop in the shower and freshen up, and have a brief rest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another view. Note missing bits of fancy trim!*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Or should I delay the shower until after moving the sleepers? The latter would require enlisting a strong burly neighbour. I wonder\u2026 is Sean in at no. 72?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Yet another DIY project for yet another day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a very faint knock on our door at about 9am this morning. I\u2019m amazed I heard it. As I was busy drilling holes in an upstairs wall, to mount a little shelf for a DVD player, \u2018neath our bedroom TV. On going downstairs I spied a young lad with a lorry, with a … <\/p>\n

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