Since you are going to be building new, here is something to think about. I don't have a mud room here and there is no toilet in the shed. If I need to use the loo I have to stop, remove my boots, or track mud through the house and sometimes when you are working you tend to hold it until you can't afford the time to remove your boots. Build a mud room with a toilet; you will appreciate it later.
Unless you're eluding to the more involved need for using the bathroom, the out-of-doors provides more than enough opportunity to relieve retained liquid, no matter which loo one chooses at Target.
"Skip to the loo my darling"...You'll only have half the mud to clean up! Sounds like you could have spent some of that toilet training on yourself!
The shower building has a very small compost toilet inside...no way my wife would go outside! I agree with the mud room idea, and might do one in the laundry/water heater room I will add on at finish. The plans call for them inside, but with only 640 sqft we thought it a better idea to add an 8' x 8' utility room off the back wall...with the added benefit of more space in the bathroom (I mean loo!) P.S. Are you English?
Moving along...got all 4 walls up and am now prepping to set the posts and beams. Laminated 3 boards @ 2" X 6" X 96 to make roughly 4.5" X 6" X 96" and will have 4 of those to equal the 32' span. Thought about 2 @ 16', but they would be kinda heavy and will be set at about 9' high...also have to incorporate the angle (approx 8.5 deg) at the top of the post. Other pic is of Desoto Falls...just over the Alabama border, about 15 minutes away.
Nice pics. The last one looks like an abandoned limestone quarry we swam at when I was a teenager-minus the nice waterfall
Got the posts and ridge pole up, and working on joist holders/hurricane straps (100)...next up will be roof joists (2" X 6")....getting close to buttoning this up! Will get more pics today, and will get some that shows more up close details.
Out of town right now...but have all the roof joists up and secured, and am starting on the roof 1st of the week. Will post updated pics soon. The rain has been killing me!
Soooo...back on the land and ready for the next batch of pics...first one shows roof joists up...next two are details of the ridge pole and bracing (consists of 4 beams @ 8' each and wanted to make sure they are bolted and strapped together) and last one is the opening for our (double) front door. The wife is slowly cutting the front "lawn" and I will be taking some of that and putting in raised garden beds. Monday we start putting the boards on for the roof, then tar paper, and finally the metal.
Update...got the roof boards on...1400+ lnft of 8" wide tongue and groove pine (my hands and knees are killing me!) instead of OSB sheets...cost 3X as much, but the wife wanted it and it turned she was right (where have I heard that before?), it looks great...tar paper is on and metal roof going on Thursday...really looking like a cabin now!
Looks great. I would have used OSB for the roof and then the pine for the ceiling on the inside so you could enjoy it all the time. A layer of insulation between the OSB and the pine (outside and inside) would have helped also. Do you intend to insulate the roof/ceiling? Maybe you won't need it down there?
I don't intend to insulate...thus the better look of the pine. I bought an 80's era Ashley wood stove, and with only 640 sf I think it will blow us out, but will know in the fall and winter if we have to do something. Maybe something removable...we'll see.
