chinny chin chin

I don't want to create the impression that I'm some sort of extremely picky shed-aficionado who can find fault with commercially-available sheds from a variety of sources despite not having yet had time to getting round to building one myself, but it would be nice for once to get a shed delivered and installed without it exhibiting some sort of dispiriting fuck-uppery. Last year's toolshed and bikeshed are still standing after being strengthened after the roofs were not attached during their installation (shortly before Hurricane Bawbag and the slightly more extravagant afterwinds struck) but had some problems despite the vendor being supplied with detailed drawings showing the required measurements. The play-shed/additional play-material storage site which arrived today for the wingpiglet did not require its size to be amended from the stock design and only needed a suitably-sized platform to be constructed prior to its arrival, in order to keep it level compared to the slopey garden and to stop it swiftly rotting. Before buying timber for the platform I popped out to the shed showplace to look at the construction of the underside to see which way the runners ran in order to ensure the shed's weight would be easily-borne and suitably distributed by the platform, and was therefore somewhat irritated when one of the delivery-installers started bouncing heavily up and down on a mere two of the seven supporting-pieces sarcastically enquiring if they would be strong enough. Sheds are not known for their tendency to bounce up and down in the middle of two five-foot-long lengths of decking, especially if the example in the shed show-enclosure had five runners running lengthwise, from side to side, rather than three running front-to-back. I pointed out the difference to the installer just to make it clear that it was the difference between the example and the actuality which was the problem rather than my ability to build something suitable for supporting a shed. Fortunately, half an hour's claw-hammering and mole-gripping and twisting and hoicking resulted in the removal of the three transverse runners, allowing the shed to rest gently and evenly on the five longditudinal runners which had been underneath the three transverse runners all the time, increasing the total area of contact between shed and platform as well as distributing the weight much more evenly. The three transverse runners may even have only been applied to the base during installation, though the failure of the time-lapse footage taken of the initial stages of construction means I shall never know for certain. Two of the spare transverse runners may now be formed into lateral retainers to stop side-to-side sliding, just in case Edgar decides to start running from end to end inside and slamming against the wall to move the whole shed like the unseen velociraptor in the opening sequence of Jurassic Park