Construction of a home darkroom, in ten easy steps.

First find your site!
This corner of our well manicured backyard will do nicely.

Then get rid of the grass. Wonderful; no more lawn mowing - heaven.
And lay a little hardcore.
And in no time at all a base appears.

So, now all I have to do is wait for the building to turn up!

I must remember to buy the wife a yard broom for christmas, I know she's always wanted one.

What fool said this was going to be easy?

Summer has made way for Autumn, and the pot plant has given up.

It's now  November and, at long last, the shed has been delivered and errected.

The fitout can begin.

Scroll down the page to follow this pictorial saga of construction chaos.

This looks like an awful lot of insulation board to install, I'm worried that I may have miscalculated the amount needed.

I had!

The first panels of 60mm board have been cut and fitted between the frame.

I think I should have had the foil facing outwards, but never mind.

Should I be reflecting the cold out; or the heat in?

Note the wife's new broom. This is the deluxe GT version with the all weather, no expense spared, plastic handle.
I wouldn't like her to think she can't sweep the yard when it's raining; an important consideration in England.

Fitting the upper panels, and part of the roof. The roof is getting a double layer, 60mm between the frame members, and an extra 60mm thickness over this.

The walls will receive a second 20mm layer over the frame later.

So! I lie, can I help it? Ten steps or a hundred; whose counting?

A wee while later, after a lick of paint.

Looking towards the position that the enlarger will occupy.

Commencing laying the laminated floor on a 60mm layer of insulation board.

A few hours later, and almost finished.

Time for a lunch break, which should give my back time to recover; to say nothing about my knees.

Apologies for the colour pictures; quite out of place on this site I know, but the camera was a cheap digital that dosn't take Black and White!