About 25 years ago my wife and daughter had horses and we needed a hayshed.
So together with my late dad we built one about 6m x 6m with a 3m high centre section to be able to back a full hay truck in and unload it.
The simplest and cheapest option at the time was what some call a 'Dutch roof'. That is a central roof section with about 25 deg fall to both sides, and the remaining roof on each side having a fairly steep fall. The remaining low sides are then left open for ventilation and the back is completely closed.
The horses have long gone to heaven and the hayshed has become the storage for anything and everything that doesn't need special protection. So it has been filled with lawnmowers, cement mixer, old stove, rotary hoe, planters, a vintage car project and a lot of rubbish not quite ready to be thrown out....
In the meantime, my classic bike collection (future resto projects) has grown and taken up all my working space in 'my' shed.
The current project (parallel to several others) is to convert this hayshed to a 'barn', with a proper floor, power, lights and fully enclosed.
The progress so far over the past few months has been to get power layed underground to a sub switchboard, 4 powerpoints and 4 fluoro lights installed and wired up. EBay provided a suitable rollerdoor - clear polycarbonate - that's been installed.
I had enough corrugated iron behind my shed to close the sides in and SIL provided some very classy looking timber wall panelling in blackbutt to clad the front.
The shed has now been emptied yesterday, and thoroughly cleaned out. Today I sealed the very rough (left over) concrete floor and soon will be boxing the front and setting up levels for pouring a new level floor on top of the makeshift sloping one with about 100mm fall to the left (maybe it settled over the past quarter century....).
Lastly I'll weld up two doors to fit the open sections either side of the roller door, which will then be clad with more blackbutt boards.
I'm pretty excited to have a dedicated space for my bike and car collection and the lawmowers, rotary hoe and cement mixer will fit in as well.
P1010402.jpg
yep, that's a very young me taking 'all safety precaution during construction' ....
IMAG2476.jpg IMAG2521.jpg
The festival sign is a relic from my daughter's 'hippy days' and I like it....
IMAG2523.jpg IMAG2524.jpg
I'll update the pics as progress is made...
So together with my late dad we built one about 6m x 6m with a 3m high centre section to be able to back a full hay truck in and unload it.
The simplest and cheapest option at the time was what some call a 'Dutch roof'. That is a central roof section with about 25 deg fall to both sides, and the remaining roof on each side having a fairly steep fall. The remaining low sides are then left open for ventilation and the back is completely closed.
The horses have long gone to heaven and the hayshed has become the storage for anything and everything that doesn't need special protection. So it has been filled with lawnmowers, cement mixer, old stove, rotary hoe, planters, a vintage car project and a lot of rubbish not quite ready to be thrown out....
In the meantime, my classic bike collection (future resto projects) has grown and taken up all my working space in 'my' shed.
The current project (parallel to several others) is to convert this hayshed to a 'barn', with a proper floor, power, lights and fully enclosed.
The progress so far over the past few months has been to get power layed underground to a sub switchboard, 4 powerpoints and 4 fluoro lights installed and wired up. EBay provided a suitable rollerdoor - clear polycarbonate - that's been installed.
I had enough corrugated iron behind my shed to close the sides in and SIL provided some very classy looking timber wall panelling in blackbutt to clad the front.
The shed has now been emptied yesterday, and thoroughly cleaned out. Today I sealed the very rough (left over) concrete floor and soon will be boxing the front and setting up levels for pouring a new level floor on top of the makeshift sloping one with about 100mm fall to the left (maybe it settled over the past quarter century....).
Lastly I'll weld up two doors to fit the open sections either side of the roller door, which will then be clad with more blackbutt boards.
I'm pretty excited to have a dedicated space for my bike and car collection and the lawmowers, rotary hoe and cement mixer will fit in as well.
P1010402.jpg
yep, that's a very young me taking 'all safety precaution during construction' ....
IMAG2476.jpg IMAG2521.jpg
The festival sign is a relic from my daughter's 'hippy days' and I like it....
IMAG2523.jpg IMAG2524.jpg
I'll update the pics as progress is made...
0 commentaires:
Enregistrer un commentaire