just doodling with a few design ideas…
just doodling…
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Hay loft nearly done!
That’s the upper storage area all finished apart from the space above the doors. The plan was to have an owl nest box inside with an access tunnel through the insulated panel. We have not had much luck with the owl box in the poplars which has been up for over three years now but I still think its worth giving it a try…after all - it IS a BARN!!!
so that’s the roof finished..
It’s been a pretty slow week due to the dark rainy weather but that’s the roof finished. All ready for gutters.
Frame nearly finished.
The frame was drawn in Sketchup then fully cut and jointed in the workshop before assembly. I decided to build the three lateral bents first and there was the advantage that the North end joins on to the existing barn - so this one went up first and was connected to the footing brackets as well as having several through-bolts into the masonry barn wall.
It was then easy to erect the middle bent using two of the purlins to set the horizontal distances and provide propping while connecting to the footing brackets.
Tiny Barn groundworks.
Extension to existing 100mm thick slab with rebar then integral 90cm cardboard tube footings for the posts.
Tiny House not vacant?
This morning I had a wonderful surprise and found our Mallard Mum and her eight ducklings sailing around the big pond at Shangri La Farm- who knows they may even have spent the night in the duck hotel!