Building a small barn

[neil 524]

I started to build this small barn in the autumn last year 2013 , i needed somewhere  to store some of my tools & a few wheel horse tractors along with a few other Bits n Bobs, & also somewhere to do a few jobs .

I managed to use up all the left over bits of wood that i had accumilated from customers  jobs & i managed to pick up a Mahogony exterior door from the bay of E for  Ten Quid . i could buy the glass for that sort of money .

 

I have only managed to complete the front & side section so far  and i built the  barn doors  only this week end .

Hope to have the roof pitched sometime this week.

 

i would have like to use reclaimed clay roof tiles but the budget would not stretch to that ,so i am using Box profile steel roof sheets ,

[Ian 2,417]

That's a nice size barn Neil, and I like the way your recycling materials to build it

Have you built it in a flood free zone of your garden?

 

I like the way the decorations have appeared before the roof is on

[neil 524]

Ian , yes sadly the barn is built in the flood zone , but then the whole garden is  . I intend to install a raised timber  floor inside in the hope that the water will not rise above the floor level .

I am hoping that due to the recent flooding within the Bridgwater area that the Government & the Environment agencies will dredge to local rivers to prevent the flooding happening again .

Hopefully they wont want the embarrasing situation of flooding  to arise again due to un dredged rivers , Infact, strangely the local water exit coarses  are all extremely low for the time of year so whatever they have done seems to be working .

 

The decorations were put up on the new barn early so that the flood water didnt float them away .

 

I am going to have to complete the barn with the view that it may flood again in the future, so i will have to keep tools etc off the ground .

[C-101plowerpower 548]

Nice little barn you got there neil, now i want one too

[meadowfield 1,900]

awesome work Neil, just what the horses need - somewhere dry. I wish I had the space to build something as big as that!

 

[Stormin 4,458]

Nice!

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

Looking real good Neil. Maybe you should've built an Ark/Barn on a pontoon base, it would then rise with any flooding. Lets hope it always stays dry in there now.

 

Shame your a long way away, we've just repaired/re-roofed some of the outbuildings in Billingshurst and have over 650 Keymer Victorian wavy Roof tiles. Probably be going to an Architectural Reclamation Yard for a fee.