Head buried in the sand

[Geoff]

Sorry I have not posted here for a long time but I have been down in the dumps for about 6 months now, and the reason being is my shed has leaked through the roof, water was everywhere and I am afraid I needed to pull up all my track and scenery I have never known a such a bad year for rain, the roof of the shed was leaking in about 6 places just glad I keep the controller and rolling stock in the house, I am planning to make my model modular because I do not want to go through that again, I have been cleaning my track and points and tried to recover as much as I could, I put the hobby down for quite a while now and just got my head back together, even the house roof was leaking so I had the roofer round to do 2 jobs, ah well back to the planning just hope we have a better year.

[Sprintex]

Oh dear, sorry to hear about that, what a disaster! 

Glad to hear you haven't completely given up though 


Paul

[Lawrence]

A fresh start and a new way of modelling Geoff, maybe all is not lost.  Good to have you back though, look forward to seeing the new work

[OwL]

Sorry to hear that. I hope that the damage isnt too severe and that you are able to get modelling again soon.
All the best
Dave

[Bigric]

Yeah , happened to me as well , in the late autumn ! Just managed to get the shed roof re-covered in time by my tame roofing man before any real damage was done . Spookily , I live near you as well , at Appleton Thorn....maybe it's a Warrington Thing ?? Or a Shed Thing ? Ric

[1936ace]

soryy to hear the bad news, like others have said, a good reason for a new/clean start and maybe some new ideas.
i read here about a lot of leaking roofs. is it because you guys have slate or something similar. i was building a new home when sydney had the masssive hail storm in 1999. made the choice very easy to go with colourbond roof no hail damage
best of luck. maybe a good chance to have the mates come around for a beer i mean working bee
bart

[matt94]

I can certainly sympathise with you there. The roof completely caved in on my shed 2 years ago and ruined my entire layout in there. I spent a year not even bothering with it after that. But i have to say i've now got a much better layout in there than i did before. And with a much better roof on too  It's a horrible thing to have happen but you can learn from your mistakes now and improve

[Geoff]

I can certainly sympathise with you there. The roof completely caved in on my shed 2 years ago and ruined my entire layout in there. I spent a year not even bothering with it after that. But i have to say i've now got a much better layout in there than i did before. And with a much better roof on too  It's a horrible thing to have happen but you can learn from your mistakes now and improve

Matt sorry about your roof caving in, the damage mainly in mine is water damage over a matter of a couple of months with me not going in the shed and alas puddles and warped wood with track twisted and scenery soggy and collapsed, but it has not beaten me, it just has given me more inspiration to get cracking with a new project. 

[Dave95979]

sorry to hear about the shed   i havnt realy got a layout as such yet but mine will be in the shed and it is one of my fears

[Geoff]

Yeah , happened to me as well , in the late autumn ! Just managed to get the shed roof re-covered in time by my tame roofing man before any real damage was done . Spookily , I live near you as well , at Appleton Thorn....maybe it's a Warrington Thing ?? Or a Shed Thing ? Ric

I think it is a shed thing it will not happen again I have bought a damp meter and I am going to keep checking the roof, I blame myself as I never went in the shed for 2 months had a lot on at the time.

[Geoff]

sorry to hear about the shed   i havnt realy got a layout as such yet but mine will be in the shed and it is one of my fears

To tell you the truth do not let it put you off I think if you keep an eye on the roof for any damp you should be fine. It just happened I took my eye off the shed at the worse time.

[Bigric]

Things us Shed Dwellers MUST have.....in an ideal world !!!

* Sound roof
* Good , safe electrics
* Effective insulation
* Effective heater for winter .

Heater - when I started , I bought a fairly cheap greenhouse heater from B&Q . Small fan heater with 2 heat options & a thermostat . Works very effectively & it's on all winter to stop the damp....low when the weather's not too bad , higher when it's really cold . Got to keep the damp out - the insulation helps greatly ! Ric

[1936ace]

wow  "a sound roof".

how big is that decoder then


Bart

[matt94]

Things us Shed Dwellers MUST have.....in an ideal world !!!

* Sound roof
* Good , safe electrics
* Effective insulation
* Effective heater for winter .

Heater - when I started , I bought a fairly cheap greenhouse heater from B&Q . Small fan heater with 2 heat options & a thermostat . Works very effectively & it's on all winter to stop the damp....low when the weather's not too bad , higher when it's really cold . Got to keep the damp out - the insulation helps greatly ! Ric

Do you really keep the heater on at all times? I have a small 2kw fan heater which i use when i am in the shed only. We have an electric energy meter in the house, and when the heater is on, it says that it uses 20-25pence of energy per hour so i dont like keeping it on for very long at all really.

[Lawrence]

I bought a small oil filled electric radiator, don't think I have had it above half way on 1 circuit as it gets too warm