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Saw a clever lean-to at a farm stand in Ohio, now I'm copying it
Stopped at a little farm stand off Route 30 last weekend and they had this lean-to built against their shed that just made sense. The roof sloped right into a rain barrel with a gutter system made from PVC pipe. They said it cost them maybe $80 in lumber and an afternoon. I've been overthinking my own shed addition for months, but that simple design clicked. Anyone else spot a backyard structure that looked basic but was actually genius?
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jason7328d ago
Man, that PVC gutter trick is the part people sleep on. Everyone fixates on the framing and the slope, but moving water where you want it is what keeps a structure from rotting out in five years. The real genius in setups like that is the whole thing works with gravity and junk you already have lying around, no pumps, no wiring, no fuss. What gets me is how much of this stuff used to be common knowledge that just died out when everyone started buying prebuilt. My grandpa had a smokehouse with a rain catch that ran on the same idea and nobody wrote it down anywhere. That farm stand basically preserved a free blueprint that a hundred guys with fancy sheds have never once thought about.
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