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We recently reached 1000 subscribers on our YouTube channel! To celebrate, we have a special video this week. This is a video of a homesteading class that Mama Bear and I did a couple of years ago and we wanted to share it with all of you. We have been saving it for a special occasion and this is pretty special.
This week we continue with installing the loft in our shed by putting in the stairs. These are a permanent staircase and compliant to code. Mama Bear and I are not getting any younger, so having an easy way to access the loft in the future will be a good thing.
The stair calculator that I used can be found here:
This week we start talking about the loft that we installed
in our shed. We had a 16x20 shed installed at the beginning of the season. We
had always planned on having a loft in the shed, but the company that we got
the shed from wouldn't install one. So, we did it ourselves.
This will be a floating loft; meaning that none of the load
from the loft is being carried by the actual walls of the shed. This was done
so the walls don't get overloaded in bad winters with large snow loads. In this
part, we install the back portion of the loft. This back portion will eventually be
completely walled off so we can store things that we don’t want animals getting
into. The joists are 2x8s which is
sufficient for the loading and spans that we are covering after doing the
calculations. The the American Wood Council's webpage for more information:
