Big Metal Shed
I’ve been at the barn for a few days, digging holes, hitting things with hammers & lugging things around with a wheelbarrow - my builder competency level is somewhere around that of navvy.
The most constructive of my efforts has been in putting walls up on a previously opened sided barn using corrugated galvinised sheets.
The barn had three open sides, with one wall and the roof already built from galvinised sheets. Therefore, the most obvious way to build the remaining walls was to use the same material. I’ve left the front open as we’ll reuse some of the barn doors on it.
This choice of materials did give me some slight pause in its selection from a sustainable, green perspective. However, as the choice of material was so obvious and if properly maintained these sheets can last a very long time I didn’t worry for too long.
Other options would have been nice; local, sustainable timber cladding or similar, would I’m sure have been nice, but the sourcing of such a product eluded me and if found I’m sure it’s cost and the extra work involved would have frightened me off.
Am I being practical or just lazy?
If you enjoyed that post, then read these...
Here we go... on October 31st, 2007
So the time has come to stop skirting around the fringes of this project and crack-on down the path that leads from barn to barn conversion (what a difference a word makes).
One small step.... on August 13th, 2007
Despite the various pieces of tinkering and potching that I've committed over the past months, I never really felt that we'd made a real start on conversion of the barn.
Here we go... on January 28th, 2007
Having claimed that the ball was rolling back on the 28th June 2006 only to spend six months to-ing & fro-ing, waiting for utility companies and solicitors to get their acts together, the ball really has started rolling.
Building Progress ~ November 2007, week 1 and 2 on November 22nd, 2007
Let the games begin.
Building Progress ~ March 2008, week 3 & 4 on April 8th, 2008
Progress has become a rather abstract term recently.
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November 12th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
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November 13th, 2007 at 7:20 am
i love your big metal shed but then i’m a big fan of crinkly tin and i think the time spent on reclaiming the wood from your animal stalls was well spent. don’t think it’s a green or mean issue from my experiance it’s just better wood!