jimlucas78
New member
Hi,
I'm a heating maintenance/installation techincian - can't bring myself to say engineer - as I'm not at the forefront of design and innovation etc.
I'm happy to describe myself as a beginner to wood working and construction.
Great to be here - in perusing the forums I've already seen such a wealth of knowledge and particulary enjoy the projects evolving through pictures.
I've hit the stage in life where i need more space for my stuff!
I'm blessed with a large garden (being in Norfolk) and want to free up space in my barn style workshop by making a very low budget uninsulated but dry storage shed/outbuilding - primarily to store a ride on lawn mower, garden stuff, bicycles etc.
It'll be 5 x 4m and be attached to the existing workshop. During winter months we pretty much live in a bog - so I thought a concrete pad would be the way to go??
I've got in the region of 120 4.2m x (2 x 8) hardwood reclaimed boards - from a pig shed of all places! It's solid wood and i'd like to use it for my build.
Is it feasible to lay a slab with a dwaf wall and make the wooden wall sections utilising the timber horizontally slotted into vertical 'H' section posts? similar to concrete fence posts? Is there a term for this type of construction? Is it even a thing?
I'm just looking at materials I have available and thinkng how they could work.
And what software do people use for bringing their ideas to life? I've seen fusion mentioned in the forums - a link would be great.
I attach an image of my most ambitious wod working project to date:
Many thanks
James
I'm a heating maintenance/installation techincian - can't bring myself to say engineer - as I'm not at the forefront of design and innovation etc.
I'm happy to describe myself as a beginner to wood working and construction.
Great to be here - in perusing the forums I've already seen such a wealth of knowledge and particulary enjoy the projects evolving through pictures.
I've hit the stage in life where i need more space for my stuff!
I'm blessed with a large garden (being in Norfolk) and want to free up space in my barn style workshop by making a very low budget uninsulated but dry storage shed/outbuilding - primarily to store a ride on lawn mower, garden stuff, bicycles etc.
It'll be 5 x 4m and be attached to the existing workshop. During winter months we pretty much live in a bog - so I thought a concrete pad would be the way to go??
I've got in the region of 120 4.2m x (2 x 8) hardwood reclaimed boards - from a pig shed of all places! It's solid wood and i'd like to use it for my build.
Is it feasible to lay a slab with a dwaf wall and make the wooden wall sections utilising the timber horizontally slotted into vertical 'H' section posts? similar to concrete fence posts? Is there a term for this type of construction? Is it even a thing?
I'm just looking at materials I have available and thinkng how they could work.
And what software do people use for bringing their ideas to life? I've seen fusion mentioned in the forums - a link would be great.
I attach an image of my most ambitious wod working project to date:
Many thanks
James
