Ceiling painted Black...

With the shed hermetically sealed, the concrete sealed, and the power cables roughed in to where the switchboard will end up it was time to give the ceiling a lick with some flat black paint and then install the black 84-inch Martec Albatross ceiling fans, three of them to be precise.

These fans do an amazing job and shift a lot of air and as there is no permanent power connected to the shed as yet, I can run them off an extension lead and enjoy some air movement.

The post should have been September 2023!

Link to the fans is here, it will open in a new window or tab: Martec Australia

Next up is a couple of months to do the second house dunny, patio drains and the new floor in the house...

Floor sealing back in August 2023...

Well to say I have been distracted is an understatement! Kitchen and laundry renovations, converting an unused void into a second dunny and then moving all the furniture to allow a new floor to be installed in the house and how time slips by. And then a false start, and it was back to the house to do bathroom renovations...

So, this will be the first of a few rapid-fire posts to get back to speed.

Well with the ceiling up and 'flushed', the hermetically sealing completed and the mains power cables run in, it was time to seal the concrete floor. I used a Dulux product 'Avista' and applied four good coats to the super smooth concrete slab. I did not wash the slab or prep it in any special way, just dust mopped it and then rolled the Avista semi-gloss down.

The tin has an exploding lung picture on the can, and it was rather overpowering with the toxic fumes, so it took several mornings to get the entire 100 square metres sealed.

I am very happy with the finish, concrete stains and all. It was by far, thousands of dollars, cheaper than even the cheapest 'budget' concrete polishing.

Okay, whilst the sealer dries and the shed vents the fumes, I'll work on the next post!

Running the mains and the fibre optic into the Shed.

Due to a slight oversight, as the conduits were installed some years prior to the shed actually being built we had a small problem as the conduits were only 32 mm. And running 16mm2 three phase from the house to the shed presented and issue as that cable is not allows in 32 mm conduit as per the good book.

So, to overcome this it involved splitting the orange circular and running the three phases, neutral and earth across two 32 mm conduits and running in a fibre optic for connectivity as data cabling cannot be mixed with power circuits, but fibre can!

The orange circular 16 mm2 exits the house and is split across the two conduits to the shed with the fibre optic as well.

The inside of the shed where the switchboard will end up eventually. Spoiler alert, as I am so far behind here it is already completed! Hahaha.

Okay, sealing the floor should be next...