Phil wrote:I am a clueless builder.
The fundy's will be along soon.
The left overhang for firewood – I would make the overhang longer for more protection, fit a nice beam across underneath next to the edge and then in the middle have a treated round pole (decent diameter) planted into the ground to support it right in the middle. Tie it together with a strap.
Phil
Thanks. I think some sort of support for the overhang would be good, even if only for appearance.
I have also realised that my own thinking of the design has moved on from my powerpoint sketch. In the powerpoint sketch I had the sole plate sitting on the lintels, but I think it makes more sense to build the floor first and have the walls built off that, as is shown in the sketchup.
A question too:
One thing I was worried about is cutting the cladding. It will be pressure-treated, but to my mind cutting it does mean you create a partially untreated face. For this reason I had initially assumed that I would build walls that were exactly 1.8m and 2.4m wide, and then have a number of timbers to make up four corner posts and fix the walls to those. However the advice on here seems to be to avoid big corner posts, so my sketch-up shows instead that I have doubled up the timbers at the edges of each wall and will attach the walls to one another directly. This means that the 2.4m wide wall will not be exactly 2.4m, so I will have to cut one end of the cladding. Now I will clearly cover this with a strip of something, but do I need to be concerned about cutting it in the first place?