Ripping the last of the timber planks
I’ve been busy every chance I get preparing timber for the side wall of the workshop. We took out a whole lot of old hoop pine planks out of the inside of our house during renovations that I originally planned to use in the downstairs games room. We’ve since come to the conclusion that it would probably create a termite highway leading upstairs so I canned that idea.
They were sitting around in various spots around the place and I was left wondering what to do with them.
It dawned on me that since I had it in mind to create a sanctuary in the shed, away from the troubles of everyday life, that I could clean them up and use them for a feature wall in there.
So that’s what I’ve been doing the last few weeks, firstly checking them all for nails using a little metal detector, scraping off any chunks of paint and such, then running them through a thicknesser/planer to achieve a nice fresh face on each board.
Lining the rear wall of the workshop.
That process took what seemed like forever so I hope it’s worth it! The next step was to run the planks through a table saw to make them all the same width. There were a few that were close to 150mm so I did those separately. The remainder were between 128 and 135mm so I ripped them all down to 128mm for consistency.
That’s where I’m up to at the time of typing this article and I’m encouraged by how the timber turned out. The next job is to screw up some timber studs to the steel shed frame so I can start nailing on the planks ad I’m keen to get into that on the weekend!
As usual, there will be a video coming out documenting the process, so check back on our YouTube channel to see the result.
Your sincerely
Nick
Gallery - Update: Shed Timber Wall Lining Process
Part one of the video series is already on our channel so check it out too if you haven’t already. It covers the roof insulation and building a timber wall frame to partition the single garage space from the workshop.
