Hello all. With the house and garage rounding into shape, we continued to plug away at our outside projects. Having turned the garage into a workshop, we needed a place for lawn equipment such as the lawnmower and decided to have a dedicated shed for such tools. Fortunately we had just the spot, a former rock garden (unintentional) behind the garage.
Our first task was the remove the rocks that we had casually tossed there when we cleaned up other parts of the yard.
We had a bunch of options for a base but decided to use pressure treated 2x6 pine boards and have them rest on concrete pillars.
That's twice as many pillars as we needed for this project because--surprise--we were working on three projects at once. We'll get to the others in a bit. As we leveled and prepared the ground behind the garage...
we also built the frame for the platform...
The leveling gods smiled on us. It must have been the offering of wood chips.
What's that you say? What became of all the rocks we displaced? We tried to dress up a couple bushes and thought it turned out pretty well.
We thought everything was in good shape until a flash of realization came to us--that platform would make the entrance to the shed too high (or the ramp to get up to the door too long). How would we square this circle? And how would our decisions on this project relate to the others we were doing?
Until next time.
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