Thread: Smoking Room Follow-up

Good morning Group,

Early in the spring, I wrote a post about an idea I had for a 4 seasons room to enjoy the rain in, avoid mosquitoes in, and to have someplace for winter pipe smoking.

My problem was that I did not have 42 inch deep footings to build on, but a slab instead. Knowing the slab would heave from the winter frost, I devised channels for the top and side wall edges to ride instead of anchoring it.

So here is what it looks like nearly complete. I removed one of the side moldings at the top above the door so you can see the channel. I need to stuff insulation in the channel yet and put on a coat of stain.

Like everything, there are some things I would have changed - but all and all it came out pretty good. The real test will be this winter to see if I left enough height in the channels so the walls don't blow themselves apart.

There is also a pic of my back yard from the view of the room.

David