The New Garden House

After about 12 years we decided to take down our old garden house. It had been erected on foundations which turned out to be a little too soft for the job. The house was getting more and more slanted and in the end the door hardly closed anymore.

In the beginning of the new year 2023 we hired a contractor to build a new foundation, and this time we were willing to pay a little more to do it right (hopefully).

So, this is the new foundation with the base parts of the new garden house already on it.

The new garden house took somewhat longer, though. Unfortunately, six items of the building kit had been damaged by the transportation company, so we had to wait for replacements. While waiting there was a storm which actually ruined another part which was blown into the air because I had forgotten to put weights on it.

Anyway, last week the replacements finally arrived, and I decided to assemble the new house on the weekend. The weather was not right, though. The problem was not the light rain (although this was definitely not pleasant) but the wind. It is almost impossible to set up a plastic house with too much wind or even some stronger gusts. So, on Sunday I assembled some of the more time-intensive parts inside the house. These were the two doors and the side windows.

Today, the weather was perfect and there was hardly any wind. I started at 1 PM and worked until about 5 PM. I got everything done except for the anchors to secure the house to its foundation. Instead, we put it quite a few bricks.

The following timelapse video shows my work until about 4 PM. Then, the batteries of my smartphone were dead. The doors were still missing at that time.

The final result of the around about eight hours of work can be marveled at here: