Build your own outbuildings and enjoy the space to do more of what you love. From simple toolsheds and animal shelters to smokehouses and low-cost barns, Monte Burch guides you through everything you need to know to make your small building projects a reality. Detailed blueprints, easy-to-follow instructions, and expert advice are suited to even the first-time builder. Discover how easy it is to create your own customized spaces that will allow your passions to grow. A recognized authority on building and woodworking, Monte Burch has worked as a contractor, editor, freelance writer, photographer, and former assistant editor of Workbench Magazine. He is the author of more than sixty books with over a million copies in print, including Monte Burch's Pole Building Projects, Building Small Barns, Sheds & Shelters, and How to Build Small Barns & Outbuildings. He lives in Humansville, Missouri.
Extend your working, living, and storage areas with low-cost barns, sheds, and animal shelters. Building Small Barns, Sheds & Shelters provides basic, easy-to-follow construction methods for attractive outbuildings. Here's complete information on tools and materials; foundations and floors; framing, sheathing, and roofing; windows and doors; wiring and plumbing; and finishing details. Specific plans and how-to-build instructions for popular home and family-farm structures include:
- Multi-purpose barns
- Woodshed, toolshed, and carport plans
- Combination small barn/studio
- Barn-style garage
- Underground root cellar
- Smokehouse
- Housing for poultry, rabbits, hogs
- Various fencing designs
Introduction
Chapter 1 Planning
Chapter 2 Materials, Tools, and Power Equipment
Chapter 3 Footings and Foundations
Chapter 4 Wood Framing
Chapter 5 Siding and Roofing
Chapter 6 Windows, Doors, and Finishing Details
Chapter 7 Wiring
Chapter 8 Plumbing
Chapter 9 Barns
Chapter 10 Root Cellar and Storm Shelter
Chapter 11 Carports and Sheds
Chapter 12 Poultry Housing
Chapter 13 Rabbit Housing
Chapter 14 Hog Housing
Chapter 15 Smokehouse
Chapter 16 Fencing
Appendices
Index
"Many questions arose as I read…in the end not a one remained unanswered." - Dan Woodcock, Eugene Oregon
