forgeblast
Elite Member
For a while I have been hinting around about this project well its time to share.
This shed started as one of those projects where I though 鼎an I do it and then I thought I might as well try? I wanted it to look like an old fieldstone shed/spring house near my friend痴 house. This became one of those projects that has taught me a lot. The whole time I was working on it I was thinking that I wanted it to look old and blend into the area. I also wanted to do the entire shed by myself, with no outside help. The only help I had was in placing the two huge stones that flank the doorway. I just could not lift them up myself.
I started it in 2005. My gram died in 2004 and I really needed to work to get out of how depressed I was feeling. The hard work and being just focused on this problem really helped me out.
I started by digging a 10 x 10 foundation. The foundation is 16鋳 across and 3 deep with the left end sloping to daylight. Since this area is wet at times I went with a rubble foundation.
Rubble trench foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I put in 2-4鋳 of 2b gravel and then put in 4鋳 drain pipe and then covered with more gravel. I then put in tarpaper and rebar. I then mixed and poured the foundation right on top of the tar paper. This was as far as I got that first year. I spent the rest of the summer trying to find stone to use. I would make piles based on sizes and shapes. I had a lot of stone. I wasn稚 sure if I wanted it to be natural shaped or square. I though since it was my first time building a structure out of stone and mortar that I would shape a lot of the stone. I used an angle grinder and would spend a day just cutting the best square shaped out of a stone.
In 2006 I started laying mortar and it was eye opening. I got about 2 high around the whole structure that summer. I had to keep finding stone which in PA is not hard to do dig a hole and you have enough for a wall.
In 2007 I was about 4 high when my mom was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. We were also trying to have our child and between running to different infertility doctors the time was just not there to work on it.
In 2008 my daughter was born and we lost my mom before she could hold her. It was another trying year, and so the shed just sat.
In 2009 we were trying to get other things done around the house and trying to get the stone in place just didn稚 happen. Plus the little one took up a bit of time
2010 I started off the summer by buying $400 worth of mortar figuring one way or another the cement projects would be done. I started putting fieldstone around the bottom of our house and so I was going through stone like crazy. I would have three piles of stone from everything that I would find. One for the house, one for a wall, and one pile for the shed. The shed stone was the smallest pile, the wall pile was the largest.
This shed started as one of those projects where I though 鼎an I do it and then I thought I might as well try? I wanted it to look like an old fieldstone shed/spring house near my friend痴 house. This became one of those projects that has taught me a lot. The whole time I was working on it I was thinking that I wanted it to look old and blend into the area. I also wanted to do the entire shed by myself, with no outside help. The only help I had was in placing the two huge stones that flank the doorway. I just could not lift them up myself.
I started it in 2005. My gram died in 2004 and I really needed to work to get out of how depressed I was feeling. The hard work and being just focused on this problem really helped me out.
I started by digging a 10 x 10 foundation. The foundation is 16鋳 across and 3 deep with the left end sloping to daylight. Since this area is wet at times I went with a rubble foundation.
Rubble trench foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I put in 2-4鋳 of 2b gravel and then put in 4鋳 drain pipe and then covered with more gravel. I then put in tarpaper and rebar. I then mixed and poured the foundation right on top of the tar paper. This was as far as I got that first year. I spent the rest of the summer trying to find stone to use. I would make piles based on sizes and shapes. I had a lot of stone. I wasn稚 sure if I wanted it to be natural shaped or square. I though since it was my first time building a structure out of stone and mortar that I would shape a lot of the stone. I used an angle grinder and would spend a day just cutting the best square shaped out of a stone.
In 2006 I started laying mortar and it was eye opening. I got about 2 high around the whole structure that summer. I had to keep finding stone which in PA is not hard to do dig a hole and you have enough for a wall.
In 2007 I was about 4 high when my mom was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. We were also trying to have our child and between running to different infertility doctors the time was just not there to work on it.
In 2008 my daughter was born and we lost my mom before she could hold her. It was another trying year, and so the shed just sat.
In 2009 we were trying to get other things done around the house and trying to get the stone in place just didn稚 happen. Plus the little one took up a bit of time
2010 I started off the summer by buying $400 worth of mortar figuring one way or another the cement projects would be done. I started putting fieldstone around the bottom of our house and so I was going through stone like crazy. I would have three piles of stone from everything that I would find. One for the house, one for a wall, and one pile for the shed. The shed stone was the smallest pile, the wall pile was the largest.
