{"id":22441,"date":"2016-07-10T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T09:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22441"},"modified":"2016-07-06T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:18:14","slug":"building-a-lean-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/building-a-lean-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Lean-to"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had been planning on building a lean-to along the back of the house for a while but then all of a sudden due to other\u00a0commitments and arrangements the weekend that we’d be able to do it was upon us. It wasn’t supposed to be quite so soon but it was the only weekend we had free and my parents had free and they wanted to come up anyway to see Morgan in the Junior School Proms. With things suddenly shifted forward a few weeks it meant I had a frantic time\u00a0measuring up and deciding what material we needed for building a lean-to.<\/p>\n

I soon worked it out and had things ordered. The wood, concrete and various fixings soon arrived from Huws Gray and I had\u00a0scheduled the plastic sheeting for the roof to arrive on Friday when I would be there for the delivery. This meant we could make a start on building the Lean-to on\u00a0Friday and hopefully get close to finishing it off over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n

Clearing the Site for a Lean-to<\/h2>\n

My parents arrived on Thursday evening so that we could make a start on\u00a0Friday morning. I had hoped to clear some of the site beforehand but what with work and other things going on just hadn’t had time. I had dismantled and moved the raised bed<\/a> and dug out lots of soil. I had also moved all of the bags of compost, buckets and other things that had been stored behind the house. We had also cleared out one shed and moved its contents to a new gardening and beekeeping store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a>

Site of the new lean-to<\/p><\/div>\n

There was still lots to do though so I was in the process of moving compost from a compost bin that was behind the house when my parents arrived on Thursday and then started again on\u00a0Friday morning, moving yet more compost, emptying the log stores and moving the canoes. Next we had to dismantle the old fence and trim back some trees.<\/p>\n

\"Removing<\/a>

Removing the Old Fence<\/p><\/div>\n

Already the front garden was filling up with various piles of discarded wood and vegetation.<\/p>\n\n\t\t