bogdan smith

Rico Loma wrote:Greetings Bogdan, with respect!

You write
"  And I also need to figure out what to make a door to the second room from, I have oak boards, but the door will turn out to be very heavy

Yes the beautiful oak is soooo dense, I concur, but could you use a saw to rip some 2 x 3 inch or similar,  then use steel connector or bolts to make a lighter door?

If possible,   covered with heavy canvas and plywood to cut weight.            Godspeed friend, any way you craft the door will be top notch.  

Alex, thank you for your help. I thought about many options for finishing, but the last flood showed that it was useless. If the hydroelectric power stations are blown up, the room will still be flooded. Therefore, the main thing now is to make the room with less dust. If the idea with the floor does not work out in an emergency, I will simply lay out a large roll of polyethylene. But in the future (after the war), I will definitely try your method. I copied it, but I did not understand what milk paint and wheat paste are. Thank you for your help.

Rico Loma wrote:Greetings Bogdan, with respect!

You write
"  And I also need to figure out what to make a door to the second room from, I have oak boards, but the door will turn out to be very heavy

Yes the beautiful oak is soooo dense, I concur, but could you use a saw to rip some 2 x 3 inch or similar,  then use steel connector or bolts to make a lighter door?

If possible,   covered with heavy canvas and plywood to cut weight.            Godspeed friend, any way you craft the door will be top notch.  

Rico, thanks for the tip, I was a little confused with the door, but your drawing gave me a good start, in the spring I dismantled a wooden fence made of boards 15 cm wide and 2.5 cm thick, 4 meters long, I covered the fence with oak from firewood and wanted to make a veranda from the boards. They will come in handy for the door and there is also good 10 cm thick foam left. This will allow you to make warm doors and separate the rooms - a warm bomb shelter, and a cool one for storing food

I finished digging, now I'll pour water well so that the straw absorbs moisture and tomorrow I'll grind everything thoroughly with a lawn aerator, I'm convinced that it's bad to work with a shovel, it's best to use a pitchfork and be sure to wet the straw

I chop the straw with a lawn mower and scatter it for further digging

I have done all the dusty work, cleaned the foam on the ceiling with a float so as not to create dust later, all that remains is to plaster it or just paint it. I tried to dig clay, it lends itself well and then loosens well with an aerator. Today they will bring me 10 bales of straw and I bought 5 kg of fiber. I also washed the walls from dust, I got the idea to paint the entire room white. Concrete walls should not be painted with paint, but treated with liquid glass and painted with lime, I think that this will be good with a clay floor, and the lime itself will also be more useful for concrete walls than paint. Also, wires with light bulbs were stretched along the walls, I think they can be seen on the luminous LED tape. It is also necessary to repair the gate, it has sagged, it will be difficult to remove and put back myself, I will break how to adjust the hinges. And I also need to figure out what to make a door to the second room from, I have oak boards, but the door will turn out to be very heavy

Rico Loma wrote:Hello Bogdan, I see your work as a problem solver continues apace. Kevin and his creativity have proposed a win-win for the home team.  I would love to get those plans myself.

Good ideas helping good people.  Stay strong Bogdan, and please keep us up to date on your many projects.  Remember our family is always with you
Rico

thanks Rico the quest continues)

Kevin Olson wrote:Bogdan -

These are the plans we bought:
https://bow-roof-shed.com/

But, a little digging on the internet should turn up the relevant technical details, or you can probably just lay out by construction, either using a homemade trammel compass and straight edge, or by doing the trigonometry, what are the offsets for the truss jig blocks from the chord of the selected circle.  Don't forget to offset the outer blocks from the inner ones by the thickness of the truss (inner and outer straps, and the scrap wood spacer blocks).

You can use a lesser or greater angle than 60 degrees of arc for each truss, but that seems to be a good compromise between flat-and-wide and tall-and-narrow.  Unless you have a compelling reason to do something different, I think I would start there.

You'll need to tie the arch trusses together down the length of the structure with some additional strapping screwed, nailed or stapled to each truss, and add a few diagonal straps (threaded through the spaces between the inner and outer truss straps, to help stiffen the structure against shear loads.

I'm not telling you what to do in your situation, just offering a suggestion to help divert excess water from the shelter and give you a bit more space out of the direct weather.

I will get a photo or two of the greenhouse, and maybe dig up a link for some building jig details.  In the meanwhile, Mike Haasl's 2nd post in this thread shows what I'm suggesting:
https://permies.com/t/168418/Advice-building-Greenhouse-Cattle-Panels

Kevin, I am grateful for any tips and even more for criticism! Now you have given me a great idea to make a greenhouse with a ramp in front of the entrance to the basement. This will not only drain the water but also use the ramp to grow plants in boxes since the basement is not used for driving a car and this is the sunny side. And plus I will be able to open the doors to the garage and effectively use the sun's heat. Thank you for the great idea!!! If I drain the excess water by rearranging the drains, strengthening the ramp on the roadway that overflow and covering the ramp at the entrance to the basement with a greenhouse, I will completely close the issue.

I drained the room, tomorrow while the floor is still wet I will wash off excess dust from the walls, dig up the entire floor so that the remaining sand in the top layer mixes with clay, then I will chop up the straw with a lawn mower, pour it on top, then add fiber that is used for concrete and mix everything with an aerator with lawn blades, after which I will level it with a building level and tamp it down thoroughly.

Benjamin Dinkel wrote:Hey Bogdan,
sorry to hear that the weather got you.
I'm glad to read that you're staying active and continue preparations for winter.

Did all that water come from the uncovered, tilted entrance? Or is it runoff from somewhere else too?

Hi Benjamin, there is a drain nearby that has significantly increased the flooding, I already wanted to move it and now this must be done either connect it to the existing drain above the entrance to the basement or bring it out separately. It also helped that I made a ramp from the roadway and it does not allow water to flow down the road, I think that it is necessary to additionally make an elevation so that the water flows down the road. It is good that I did not just put a drain but additionally made a recess in the concrete and cleaned it from debris before the rain, and of course that I made a large container to drain water from the drain. Now I am wondering if I need to make a grate on top?

the quest is getting more complicated, today I left home and left the basement gate open so that the prepared boards could dry. the storm drain couldn't cope and the basement is flooded. thank god I managed to come and close the gate and at the time made a good water drain from the second entrance where the battery and solar inverter are located. The second room remained dry thanks to this it also remained dry. I don't remember such a downpour in the last 20 years, hail lay like snow. It's good that all this happened in early autumn and now there is still an opportunity to dry the basement. Conclusions have been made, we need to be more careful), and tomorrow there will be a lot of work - we need to drain this part of the basement, after that we need to make the basement gates airtight (they held back a large flow of water well) and make a sealed door to the second room and in the future make a cover over the entrance. drone attacks continue. Therefore, we do not stop and are preparing for winter.