A Cheap Shed

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 479, 27 August 1948, Page 23

A Cheap Shed

This easy method of making a quite serviceable make-shift shed, or even perhaps an extra bedroom by filling in a veranda-end, has been asked for by so many people that I think it should be printed here again. It was given to me by the N.Z. Farmer Weekly. Stretch sacks tightly on a framework, As long as they are not rotten, their condition does not matter, for holes roughly patched and darned are covered when the work is completed. Make the framework in the usual way with posts and scantling. Make a _cement-wash with 12Ib. cement, 2Ib. lime, ilb. salt, 141b. powdered alum, and about 6 quarts of water. ’ . Mix the lime and salt and sift if necessary. Add the water and stir well, Next stir in the cement well. If the mixture is too stiff to work with a brush, add water carefully. When the mixture seems about right, stir in the alum. The sacks must be thoroughly wetted with water on both sides and the mixture then

applied immediately. Brush a _ coat evenly on to the outside, working it well in, and then go over the inside the same way. Before the mixture. sets, add another coat to the outside. The work sets hard in a day or so, and is firm and solid, but not brittle. If not considered strong enough, more coats can be added outside at any time; or, of course, boarding may replace it. near the ground, where’ damage from stock, such as pigs, has to be considered. Exceptional strength can be had, especially it required for roofing, by adding a second or even three layers of sacking, each being put on while the surface of the work is wet, and immediately covered with mixture.