Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

somethings wrong with it.... OH yeah I know



deb

lol just have no words what flashed thru my mind! morning @perchie.girl

 

[BriardChickens]

@Alaskan we upgraded out fire place in the fall. It now burns a load in 12 hours. It says with the right kind of wood and proper temperature set up you could get a 30hr burn time out of one load of fire wood! Called the Blazeking Princess Model, totally worth it's money!

 

[vehve]

Deb, there's already ketchup in the BBQ sauce I used for the pulled pork. Didn't need any more in my opinion. And fries are much better with dijon mustard-mayo.

Sam, that deck is a bit of an issue, the existing roofline sort of dictates that you either do a very gently sloped roof, or then you need to build the deck lower, or make a ridge in the middle of the deck that's in a 90deg angle to the house, with the ridge rising a lot higher than the roof of the house. I like steep roofs myself... One thing you could do is build a high roof there and leave about a meter wide corridor between the house and the covered bit, would look a bit silly but that would leave you only shoveling a narrow bit. But honestly, it's not a very good foundation to build on, so to speak.

 

[BriardChickens]

so.. what's everyone up to today?

 

[hennible]

Nope that deck is a giant pain in the ***. It faces south so it's too hot to enjoy in the summer and all it does in the winter is collect snow...

This is a bad drawing but I think you can get the idea of what we're hoping to have built...
Can't lower it because there's another house underneath it basically, my mother's basement suite... That's the other reason why I can't have the low sloping roof towards the front of the deck if the snow falls off their blocks her entrance....
Worst Deck Ever!

 

[hennible]

so.. what's everyone up to today?

Chicken stuff and shoveling snow, how about you?

 

[vehve]

Sam, that drawing is exactly what I meant with the ridge placed in a 90 deg angle to the existing ridge. That's probably your best solution.

 

[vehve]

Sam, also, after putting the roof on, you could screen it with some hardware cloth and...

 

[Alaskan]

nah @hennible best solution is to add another story on your house, make it taller, and put a new roof over the entire thing. That way you could pick out a new roof!

all you need is an extra $200K in your back pocket!


As to the deck.... snow blower.... or change the railing, so that when you shovel you can push all of the snow off the deck and it just goes out under the deck railings. Of course, a good sized 'to push the snow through' hole is big enough for toddlers to fall through.

 

[Alaskan]

Sam, also, after putting the roof on, you could screen it with some hardware cloth and...

ooh! ohh!

Make it a chicken coop!