Last month I concentrated on getting the all-important lifeblood into the workshop: electrics, which provides everything from compressed air, heat, light, power-tools, food, to keeping the place devoid of corrosive excessive moisture in the air.
This time, after waiting an age, the uber-expensive cladding finally arrived. There are a lot of options when it comes to the purchase of timber cladding for wooden buildings, from the thin crap used on garden sheds sold by DIY chains, to eye-wateringly expensive pressure-treated, custom-machined stuff at the other end of the spectrum.
I would rather this workshop had been concrete for longevity, but given the planning constraints this wasn’t an option, so I decided to build the most future-proof wooden building possible and if that meant haemorrhaging money on materials then that was how it would have to be; I didn’t want to be rebuilding or replacing the structure within my active lifetime.
