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French Wooden 2 storey Garage, new construction, replacement of the old.
clockmanFRA:
Slowly but surely I am getting the old farm buildings here back up to operational and working condition.
This is the old 150 year old oak framed and slate roof open ended wood barn where the old tractor/cart was stored.
When we took over the old farm, this wooden building was in a poor state, with the base oak frame well rotted out and some of the structural timbers rotted and broken. At the time i fenced it off to stop our young children from playing in it.
In 2008 one wall had fallen out and by 2011 the building had collapsed.
2017 we applied for official permission to rebuild the building exactly the same footprint and exterior materials to be the same and similar design of structure, walls with joint edging strips, roof in slate, roof height and pitch the same as the original.
We got permission for 3 projects,.......
1 the Sheep barn alterations and stables, just minor touches to finish.
2 A new fiberglass salt water swimming pool, 4.5m x 10m, with a sloping 1.1m to 2.2m depth. Totally finished, and Yes all run on our Eco power supply and system.
3 Reconstruction of the wooden garage.
The garage is the last on my list.
Suffered at the beginning of the year with this nasty virus, and had very little money and very very few jobs coming in ever since.
So cutting back on everything, scrimped and saved, and got on with the 3 projects slowly but steadily.
Here is the old garage photos before it finally fell down in 2011.
Since permission granted for a rebuild in 2017, there has been changes around here, with a new Mayor and local council and new Officials and regulations that have clamped down on folk in our quaint valley from building stuff.
Now its 2020 Our new mayor has been hassled by the new 2nd home urbanites/Parisians that have moved in locally and got nothing better to do than keep reporting our building activities to the regional planning departments.
I have known our new Mayor since we first came here in 2002, and he is retired and okay. He called a few weeks ago and asked us to put a modern planning board up on our gate to assist him and the council clerk from being constantly bothered by the complainers of our works.
We have 2 separate planning permission approvals running at present, one from 2003 and this one from 2017, There are no time limits on the works being finished as long as they are being substantial undertaken.
What a World we live in. It seems the old saying is appropriate, .... " the more work you do the more people become jealous of your progress". In Lincolnshire, in the UK it was called "Green Eye".
Just me and using one of my fit school boys on occasions, block and tackle, Uk scaffolding for erecting crane jibs, and locally sourced and pressure treated timber.
2017. Concrete reinforced raft foundation, with concrete block 600mm high base wall, then up with the scaffolding.
clockmanFRA:
End of August 2020 and the new garage goes up.
5m / 16ft x 5m /16ft with a max Hight of 6m 20ft.
Walls are made in 6 frames, using locally sourced pressure treated timber. The outer timber for each frame is the classic French size 176mm/ 7inch by 65mm/ 2 5/8' inch. All other timber is 150mm/ 6inch by 50mm /2inch.
Each wall frame has a full sheet of 10mm thick marine ply at 2.5m x 1.222mm, thats 98 1/2 inches by 48 inches. I altered the design to take a full ply sheet without the need for cutting.
All timber joints are screwed, 100x6 or 120x6mm,/ 4 inch & 5 inch. With modern powerful electric NIFE battery screwdrivers drilling and screwing thousands of screws is just way better than using the good old nail methods.
Roof trusues joints are screwed and the galvanised steel joint plates are srewed with 35mm x 4mm or 1 3/8s inch , i think i have got through about 5,000 small screws.
2 more semi trusses to make next week and the gable end trusses to be studded for the covering support. 6 diagonals to be installed.
5 main roof trusses were made on the floor and hoisted up, the other 8 semi trusses were made in situ on the roof.
Raining today, i hate working on roofs in the rain.
electrondady1:
nice work . Should be good for a couple of hundred years. your grandchildren will call you blessed.
MattM:
I love it. Very nice construction.
clockmanFRA:
Thanks guys for your kind comments.
Although my Mrs and the local French wood folk builders say that i always over engineer everything.
I think its the Engineer in me that says, 'what if we have 3ft of snow stuck on the roof in that once in a lifetime storm', and 'just that little extra to be safe than sorry!'
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