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The first photo shows the back of the new structure with diagonal bracing in place (and garden tools hanging up). The roof was formed by laying pallets across the two timber purlins. The pallets were tied together by nailing them to 2x4 lumber between each row of pallets. The overhangs (needed to protect the earthen plaster on the sauna) required additional bracing in the form of peeled oak diagonal poles between overhang and wall. This structure does not even begin to meet code, especially for snow load roof capacity, so it will be interesting to see how it withstands the weight of winter snows. Peeled whole timbers (used for the purlins) are much stronger than the sawn lumber in an equivalent size. Finally, the structure was covered with recycled roofing metal. Eventually, we'll get a gutter on it to collect the rainwater.
The second photo is a front view of the building. The entire structure cost about $200.
Third picture is of the back yard with garden (some beds covered due to frost), yurt on left, then woodshed/sauna, greenhouse in back, garden expansion area in front of greenhouse.
Last photo is looking inside the sauna. Linc made the sauna wood stove from an enormous old heavy equipment air cleaner housing that we found abandoned in the weeds. It's controlled with inlet and outlet dampers, but if run wide open will glow red-hot in a matter of minutes. We added metal shielding spaced out from the earthen plaster walls after this picture was taken to avoid torching the new sauna. The sauna works really well.
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