Post by vera on Feb 6, 2006 20:49:15 GMT -5
Back in AZ, my old neighbor said that in the old days, they often built sheds/utility buildings out of cutoffs. 2x4, 2x6, even 2x8, depending on what they got their hands on. Now, this wasn't down in the desert, it was up in the mountains where winters are relatively harsh (and long), and the rainy season comes with a lot of daily water. Meaning, buildings have to have some substance to them or they don't cut it.
They'd usually lay a native stone foundation and top it with an unbroken base board, and then stack the cutoffs on top of it, overlapping them sort of like brickwork and nailing them on each course. Windows and doors would be done like in a log building, and the roof went on like on any other building. I guess they left the floor bare dirt, or maybe they put floor joists and boards down where it'd go in a log building.
I'm thinking that cutoffs are still a pretty cheap kind of building material and certainly suitable for something like a chicken coop or garden shed or storage building or some such. Has anybody here used them for that kind of thing?
They'd usually lay a native stone foundation and top it with an unbroken base board, and then stack the cutoffs on top of it, overlapping them sort of like brickwork and nailing them on each course. Windows and doors would be done like in a log building, and the roof went on like on any other building. I guess they left the floor bare dirt, or maybe they put floor joists and boards down where it'd go in a log building.
I'm thinking that cutoffs are still a pretty cheap kind of building material and certainly suitable for something like a chicken coop or garden shed or storage building or some such. Has anybody here used them for that kind of thing?
