Greenhouse back door framing
Yesterday, I had a few hours to work on the greenhouse. I focused on the back door hole framing. This will be a wood door seperating the greenhouse from the fish shed. There will be a hallway running along the back wall going to the shed. So walk out the back door, hard left turn, 3-5ft of hallway openning to the fish shed.
I intend to build the west side wall and then start the framing for the shed. We will get there. That giant openning had to get smaller. Not only because I did not want to do french doors, but to support the back wall. That space is three studs worth of support. I had added two 2x10's as the initial carrier beam. That still left the space over 8 feet tall and we do not need a door that big. Also, the more carrier beam, the more solid a structure we will have.
Thinking about the door we are going to make, I imagined a standard door that swings into the hallway to the east. Right hand pushes door open and then you turn left. Now, as I type, I wonder if a sliding barn door would be a better option. Maybe I will build the walkway and shed frame before the door. I did consider a french door, keeping the doorway wide, but then we would need to either fold the left door flat against the wall so we can walk by. This is possible but wont be perfect. In the end, I framed the doorway to accept a door that would fit the width of the hallway. Now the more I consider this, I think a sliding barn style door will work the best.
The doorway is now 38 inches wide and 6ft 6inches tall. The point of the hallway is not just to walk to the shed. I intend to mount all the wind turbine equipment in the hallway. The electronics will not do well in a hot, moist environment. Once we do get fish, the shed will be cool, but also be a high moisture environment. With a door at each end of the hallway, and well insulated with foam, it should stay cool and dry. We will leave the doors open during the coldest parts of the winter to ensure nothing freezes.
The wood for the carrier and jack beams are white oak. I did not intend to use such a hard wood for this, however the log on top of all the pine with the punky side up was not pine, but it was easy to grab with the forks. I suppose extra strength is not a bad thing. Being oak, I had to predrill every hole. That was tiring but rewarding. With the additional shoring, the last bit of wiggle in the back wall is gone.
It is probably going to be a while until I get back to the greenhouse. On ambulance duty today, teaching tomorrow through Friday, helping a friend build a bbq grill on Saturday, and a safesitter class on Sunday. Monday Scrap-Metal-Frank asked that I bring our tractor to his house and level out wood chip piles. Tuesday I am on ambulance duty again and then teach wed-friday. Long story short, its gonna be a while.
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