Might be interesting? If I waited that long I still wouldn’t have posted. I think my first post was a fart joke. Very cool build—thank you for sharing and welcome to the group. You make me want to build something like that instead of the traditional shed I was planning. I did make the mistake of reading the entire Uncle Auggie thread…equally informative and cringe-inducing.
Last year I did a kiln following plans from another site and it worked well. The largest splits of oak were still a bit fizzy so they're still in the stacks last year. Years ago we built a year around hoop/greenhouse that was heated by the owb all winter and while I shoveled away from it occasionally it withstood better than a dozen winters before I took it down last year (wasn't heated for the last 8 winters. Kind of wish I hadn't removed it since it would have been handy now. The greenhouse film lasts at least 8 years here unless 1-2 inch hail hits it... Construction pictures were for a gardening conference I was speaking at.
For some reason I recall an old joke about two bulls standing on top of a hill overlooking a valley full of grazing cows. One bull was a young stud and the other one was older and more experienced. The young bull saw the sight and exclaimed with much excitement to the older bull, “Look at all those cows! Quick! Let’s run down their and have one of them!” The older bull answered and said, “I have a better idea. Let’s walk down there and have all of them.”
That's a silly fable.....anyone who knows or has cows and bulls knows that 2 bulls ain't gonna get along when hot cows are involved!!!
I re-read that whole kiln thread again. Wow! BTW, those same two bulls were in the pasture with the cows when a tornado passed nearby. The cows were knocked off their feet and blown into a gully. After it passed the farmer came out and was amazed to see the bulls calming chewing their cuds. When asked how this could be, the old bull explained “we bulls wobble, but we don’t fall down”. You might need to be a certain age to follow that one.
I agree, fascia definitely would have been preferable. Ideally, I would have used some sort of hard plastic panels for the roof and sealed the eaves with foam. I plan on doing that once the greenhouse fabric fails.
Your hoop house looks nice. My wife keeps hinting she would like a greenhouse now that I completed the kiln. I am trying to talk her into just letting me set up a potting bench inside the kiln in February, since there will be room by then for a portable bench.
