Building a storage shed

I lived in one, briefly. Scary…

My advice based on this one sad experience: If you put it in the loft, make sure you fully and properly insulate the FLOOR!! Seems obvious, right?? Yeah, well lil’ Miss Cheapskate trainer didn’t get around to that, some BS about the contractor not finishing. Uh, sister, it’s Vermont, you know where it’s 10 during the day if you are lucky and -10 at night. Oh, did I mention I had to sleep on a mattress on the floor?? URGH. Idiot.

Adding to the foolishness the apartment wasn’t heated properly either. It was, er, interesting, with the one or two wee little portable heaters. She had the nerve to come “check on me” the first night. When I mentioned it was cold in there, she actually said it seemed fine to *her*. Yeah, genius, you are standing in the ‘outside’ in the loft where it’s -10. I’m inside were it’s maybe 40 or so. Take your coat off and stay a while and *then* tell me you still think it’s warm in here. asshat.

I lasted about 48 hours. When the drain for the septic FROZE SOLID and overflowed into the barn, I told the chick she could keep her crap apartment and crap job. That happened because she put the septic line in so that it had to travel about 40 to 50 feet above ground in the barn BEFORE going into the ground. How stupid is that?? How’s about atleast putting some heat tape on the thing, genius?

Of course, I’m figureing the OP has more brains then all this, but I figured I’d share.

If you do it, do it right. This apartment was also illegal. (surprise!) She didn’t get a permit because what she wanted to do was not allowed in her town. So she found some idiot contractor who would do it any way, sans permit.

The horses did make a fair bit of noise. But it was mostly banging about on frozen solid buckets. It *was* -10 at night, so it was going to happen no matter what. Horse ‘noises’ I think is something you can get used to. The ‘joke’ to play on the ‘new girl’ at Ri-Arm is to NOT bother to tell her about the freight train that passes thru at all hours of the night!! It takes weeks to get used to it, but yes, eventually I could sleep thru the sound of a speeding train (complete with horn) only a few hundred yards from my house.

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