Hi Lloyd.
I thought you might be interested in this small shed, alone in a field up the valley from my home in Southern Snowdonia, Wales. We’re in an area of old slate mining which began in the mid-19th century. and finished maybe 30-40 years ago. The slate slabs on this small outbuilding are between one and two inches thick.
Cheers, and all the very best to you from Corris, Wales.
–Neil Heath
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
wow; built like a brick outhouse!
It is the old outhouse, the loo, or in Welsh ‘Ty bach’ (little house).
Amazing the shape it is in after all these years. Now THAT is eco friendly, and earth conservative…(Not like many modern appliances – dishwasher/fridge/washing machine) which seem to have planned deaths of five years, and too costly to repair…)
Back to the “shed”…..okay I’ll bite.
Tiny little opening at bottom looks too perfect to be accidental..
mmm Must be for the Wee Folk…..?
It’s to let the rats out!
Nice shed. Corris is a lovely village I’ve passed through many times when bikepacking