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The workshop I built for my wife after the first lockdown, mainly to stop her from taking over mine(!)
I’d always been intrigued by the idea of stitching a shed and greenhouse together, so knocked this up. The idea is that the greenhouse captures solar heat in the winter to help heat the workshop - it seems to work, and the shed is very heavily insulated with polystyrene collected off the local beach over a summer and put through a garden shredder.
With a small radiator, the temperature gets up to about 22C very quickly, even with outside temperatures around zero. When they’re about 8-10C and upwards, no heating required.
Built mainly out of free stuff (greenhouse, roof tiles, much of the frame, insulation, copper ridge, windows, door).
Please ignore the oil tank. We inherited it and can’t afford to change systems.
That's brilliant, a shed with a conservatory!
I put the greenhouse up during the first lockdown (it had been lurking in an overgrown, shady corner ever since being donated to us), and we actually used it as a detached conservatory: every day at 4pm, my wife and I would sit in there on deckchairs, and have a beer.
Weird, what makes up our better memories of the initial stages of COVID.
Absolutely. In the summer of lockdown, we would sit out in our front garden with camping chairs most mornings for a cuppa at 11ish.
Fatal pandemics notwithstanding, it was a time of taking pleasure in small, simple things
Yes, if only the world could have retained the memory of how to do that.