You will probably be better off, if you can dig the hole, with a passive air geothermal pipe.
The other thing to look at is the newer tech passive cooling roofs. They reflect the heat from the roof away from the house. What I found was the roof collected all the heat, the attic got hot and then it pushed all the heat down into the living space. If you cool the attic with a fan, it reduces the amount of heat that gets pushed into the living space. The passive tech, actually reflects the heat out before it collects in the attic. There are a couple of different ways to do it. But it is easiest to keep the heat out in the first place.
Not worried about headers over the window and door in such a short wall, though I’ll scab in a couple blocks just because my ocd won’t let me leave it alone. 8’ walls may be a little excessive for a shed, but I’m planning on a small loft just for holiday decorations and unused trapping supplies while have plenty of full head space to walk around
True, but during winter I’m going to want heat inside for drying furs during the trapping season, and heat in the green house at the same time. I may end up with a small wood stove to serve the heating purposes, but during summer if I just want a semi cool shaded spot with benches for a small project it would be nice to have it cool in there as well. If I pump water from the creek to a coil of pipe in front of the opening window and a fan pushing/sucking the cold air off it I think it would be very easy to keep it below say 70° which is right on the high end of comfortable working Weather for me. Water would return right back to the creek, so just harvest some cool air from the 50 or so degree spring water
I have put a lot of thought into heating a space like that Marcus. I’ll try and organize them and maybe they can give you some ideas. This is not one of them but I saw this on youtube a while back. It’s interesting.
Solar thermal panels on the roof, then cover them with mylar (the emergency blankets) in the summer and just let the convection currents pull off any remaining hot air. they used to use like a lime? white wash on glass greenhouses to block the heat, but it washes off after a rain. Im not sure the mylar would stay on either but they do make a reflective paint… it would be nice if it was like an awning type of material that you could roll up.
All the 2x4 framing was pallet materials, the 3/4 decking was scavenged off a concrete job by my dad, the 2x6 floor joist were from a single wide demo years ago. Just stuff I have been pack ratting away for years. I would estimate materials would have cost close to 2000$ so far at current market value. My dad just 3 days ago had a company come out and build a 10x20’ “barn” that cost him 8,000$ and the vast majority of their materials we very poor quality. For being the former lumber capital of the world our local market is flooded with inferior materials. All the good stuff is locked up in seacans and shipped over seas for top dollar payment by other countries while we seem to get the left over dregs. Some of this salvaged lumber is old growth doug for, weyhauser stamped 1964, still in perfect condition today. Granted it was part of a building out on the coast, where salty air does some kind of preservation to it. Very interesting when it is cut you can smell the ocean
I am no where near as skilled as some of our resident rock workers, but I started a small dam on the creek not to stop the water but give me a reserve pool to pull off of in a “emergency”
Have found all these flat pieces of sand stone on the back edge of the property and there was a natural choke point right here so I’m utilizing that. The boys are currently enjoying stack gravel from the pool to help seal it up. Should be about 3’ deep and 15’ long 8’ wide when it’s done
It is a good thing that no salmon run up that creek or the fisheries will make you take it out. Poor salmon, they need all the help they can get from the fisheries department of wild life. Lol. Do not know how the salmon made all these years with out mans help.
The cowlitz river is a few miles down the valley and is dammed, lewis county pud traps the fish below and transports then up through Mayfield lake, riffe lake, the tilton river, lake scanewa and a few other local areas. Very well looked after in this area, but nothing comes up this spring fed trickle. It may or may not have some crawfish in it now or later
Wow, now you do have a longer drive. I use to drive 160 mile round trip to the dam from Moses Lake. That little high milage gas car is needed now for sure.
It is currently averaging 51.2 mpg,and with setting up everything for self sufficient living there is little spare time for chunking wood and weekend driving. A few months of knocking things out and I’ll be back to wood, the dodge will get a lot of gravel road and boat towing work around here
Brought home a thing. It’s been in storage since I was about 12, I learned to ride on it when I was 6. I bought it from my dads neighbor for 25$ not running, payed for with a summer of mowing his lawn which was a little over an acre. Little tinkering and my boys will learn to ride on it
Peas, chard and lettuce in a small front yard raised bed are doing pretty well so far. I know it is late in the season for a garden but just going to see what I can get
The neighbor came down with his tractor and tilled the big garden below the house, Syllus and I have spent 2 days after work raking out all the grass sod
and make some attachments for raking and furrowing with it so hopefully much less hand work. Hope to have corn planted today and squash/zucchini/cucumber between the corn and some other misc root and bush crops on the sides. Will eventually have some kind of water containment from rain and spring water just for the gardens, for now the “pond” is looking pretty good about 18” deep
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All the apple trees and cherrys trees are getting loaded up quickly some from our piece some across the road to n the tree farm and the neighbors. We will have far more apples then we know what to do with
