{"id":14742,"date":"2022-10-28T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14742"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:49:07","slug":"diying-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14742","title":{"rendered":"DIYing (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Logs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long overdue, and by a significant number of years, I decided to provide the house with a log store. But instead of going to B&Q (or wherever) and spending a few hundred quid on something that is a bugger to put together, is a bit cheap and tatty, looks totally out of place (because we are so very classy), and will fall apart during the first hurricane-level storm that comes along, I have decided to design – and build – something just for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thinking process took a long time. Months, in fact. I had a lot of things to think about. The thinking process started with ‘Do I use that old concrete pad a long-distant owner left behind when they took their garden shed with them, or do I locate the log store somewhere else and put off breaking that concrete pad up for a year or several?’ Common sense eventually won the thinking process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there was the designing. The design process took a few weeks, several iterations and a couple of complete reworks. The final design intention was an airy, covered, timber-framed log store capable of holding the entire winter’s supply, which we could top-up, without loading new logs on top of old. I’ve seen that before; it doesn’t look good and it never ends well, usually leaving a big mess that has to be cleared out in the warmer months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The build process took much longer than expected because I’m essentially on paternity leave. Babysitting two spaniel puppies and the two larger spanners is a near full-time job and, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that power tools and puppies do not go well together! Another factor for slower than expected build progress was that I constantly reviewed the design. And then the weather periodically screwed up my timescale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest hands-on design review was moving the first build iteration of the base of the rectangular frame up off the ground so that air could circulate beneath the stored logs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First go at the front frame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once I felt I had the front frame right, I had to build a replica for the back frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Front and back frame together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I tapped two side pieces across the top to check all the right-angles and sizes matched on both frames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Front and back frame being compared for all dimensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With the top rails fitted, the next stage was to fit the central base joist and the base side supports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Centre base joist and right-hand side support<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then, when all three base joists were fitted, I started to lay out the base, side, and back slats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Right-hand base slats, side slats, back slats, and my two willing but unhelpful apprentices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I fitted risers to the back upper support rail, to give the roof sufficient angle for water run-off. A wiser head would have built the back higher than the front to accommodate this requirement. Ahem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I fitted some clear perspex roofing sheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roofing fixed in place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And then I threw in half a ton of logs and Robert’s your Mother’s Brother, I declared the log store build finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Finished!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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