Starting the garden shed/Greenhouse.

The garden shed /Greenhouse will be where we put the plants we have that cannot handle a freeze. We are designing it with glass on the south side with air vents that can be opened in the summer. We plan on putting 55 gallon drums full of water and sealed on the south wall with the windows. In theory the sun will heat up the water during the day and release the warmth stored in the water during the night when it gets cold.
The first thing we did was establish the size of the building by measuring the width and length and at the same time, finding what the change in elevation is by pulling a string with a string level from the highest corner to the other 3 corners. If we measured the ground distance only, it would not have been accurate because to get a building level we had to measure the line that would make the building level when it was finished. This will give us a close estimate as to the placement of the building and what we need to do to prepare the site for construction.
The best way to set the out side dimensions is with batter boards or a laser transit. Of course we thought "this is just a shed" and proceeded to do it the hard way by just pulling lines and setting stakes where the post go. It turned out ok but we had to do some adjustments.


So we had to cut down some trees that would have been in the way of the building. Out comes the chain saw and we start to cut a limb and discover the blade is dull and all our blades are dull. It is very hard on a chain saw to run it with dull blades so we had to stop and get the blades sharpened before we could proceed. Thus the limb was half cut and ready to almost fall!