Building a hut – the beginners’ guide（建造一个小屋,初学者的指南）.pdf

Building a hut – the beginners’ guide Keen to try your hand at building a hut from scratch? Experienced woodsman David Blair takes up a challenge to produce the ultimate how-to guide for beginners. uilding with timber is not plan... then you can love it when the buildings work well with simple pad rocket science. Creating shelter plan comes together. And work with foundations allowing good airflow Bis a simple, primal necessity others... a team is greater than the underneath and adapting easily to demonstrated by children building sum of its parts. sloping sites. For small buildings like dens at every opportunity. The same huts, paving slabs – ideally the large, basic principles apply, whether you Rules of thumb heavy duty ones (600x600mm) – are building a hut, a home or a 1. Don’t hit it with a hammer! make good foundations and can often chicken coop. Give your hut a good 2. Measure twice, cut once be reclaimed. hat, jacket and boots because it will 3. When building in Scotland, get be out there in all weathers! That it wind- and waterproof as soon as For buildings no bigger than 4m in means a completely waterproof roof possible any dimension, a pad in each corner covering that sheds water clear of the 4. There is more than one way to should be sufficient. Use a taut walls, external cladding that keeps out build a hut. string line and pegs to mark out the the rain, and foundations that keep external dimensions of the hut on the wood out of the mud and clear of Y