Well, the rain is here now. I spent the day trying to figure how I could make my shed footprint bigger. My basement door opens onto a patio under my deck and that's where I'm putting the tractor/tool shed. I've been putting a roof UNDER the deck, but the deck support design was kind of limiting me on size. I was able to get to an 8' X 11' fairly easily, but today I figured out how to get it out to 13' X 11', maintain some headroom AND still keep the rain out... I hope! I'm 6'2" and I'm determined not to have to stoop in my shed! A sheet of T-111 has been the plan for the shed door all along. I'm planning to use that 6 or 8 mil clear plastic (as used on snowblower hoods) for transom windows along the top of the wall on the side that faces southeast and in the door (northwest facing). The wall sheathing will swing up and out from the top, the "windows" will swing in from the bottom and screening will stay in place on the framing. I only have one spare circuit breaker left to run power from, so there won't be a lot of work going on in this shed. I want to replace the 3'0" X 6'8" door in the house wall with a 4'0" door while I'm at it but the wall is poured concrete, not cinder blocks. Maybe I'll work on THAT project over the winter...from the inside....This door does NOT open into the shed, by the way, but onto the patio adjacent to it . Right now, with some disassembly I can bring the tractors into the basement to work on them but I don't want to keep them inside because they would take up too much room in my soon to be airplane factory. A bigger door would make moving them in to RESTORE and out to STORE easy.
