We had Friday and Monday off this weekend and along with some helpers we had set about a plan to get rid of our old shed on the new plot. Predictably enough, when you take take time off work to go to the allotment it rains, both Friday and Monday lived up to expectation in that regard.
I started by removing all the glass from the roof, or what was left of it. We used some new fancy boxes from kiddy to store all the broken bits, which came in very handy. We’ve removed so much glass from the plot ourselves I really didn’t fancy adding to it. With the glass out we set out taking down the rotten half. It really only took a few hits with the hammer to remove all the wood, and even break the bigger horizontal pieces in half.
We then cleared out all the junk we had in the shed, finding lots of old tools whilst we were at it, but nothing really of any use. Sadly enough the only place to put this junk it on the land we cleared and put chippings down on recently, but it’s for the greater good and it will get moved on to the tip eventually. After removing the other long side we just had to push the ends slightly and the whole thing came crumbling down. We did have a plan to tidy up and do tip runs as we did the work but it soon became apparent that it was much more fun to knock the thing down and clear up afterwards, which took Pilla, Dad and Nic almost as long as knocking down the thing. I was mostly supervising at this point!
We spent some of Sunday clearing the area in front of the shed and adding some new chippings – it looks really neat now. We also had our first tool casuality at the allotment, I managed to snap my spade in half. All that was left on monday was to do a few tip runs, thanks to Dad again we managed a couple in the rain. There’s still a whopping big pile of wood and a fair bit of bricks and rubble but we are on the way. Thanks to everyone invovled… Dad, demolition expert/logistics, Philippa, site maintenence, Nic, head labourer, and Kiddie storage solutions!
The plot looks lots better, and also looks huge now. We did feel a bit bad for disrupting a fair bit of wildlife, including frogs, toads and hundreds of spiders. The next job is clearing the area of the mountains of bind weed roots and prepping the ground for the greenhouse and shed. Both of us are looking forward to having somewhere to keep dry and make brews in :)!
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