Love to see the final result, what a great project. Good luck.

How fun! I used the old barn wood from a leaner shed to make a new garden tool shed

Fill in the pit before you replace the floor.

I don't know what I'd do without my shed, so am cheering you on from Maine! We old house 'girls' can never have enough storage.

Nice! We kept our outhouse and still use it.

I see that it's undergoing a detailed inspection by a beautiful orange tiger!

Yeah, that is "Peach". And he's a he. I didn't name him, the neighbor boy did. :)

Today was the first time I've ever been able to actually walk inside the outhouse. It was too dangerous before. Right away I saw initials scratched onto the walls inside. I'd like to think it was the school children but I really am not sure if this is the original outhouse from all those years back or not. Perhaps only from the later years like the 1920's, 30's.

I've decided I don't like the floor the guy put in. I wanted a TG floor but with no groove down the centers. Where was my brain yesterday? I was putting the bags of leaves in there this morning and it suddenly dawned on me this was not the floor I thought I was getting. It will bother me. Sure it's just a run-down tilted outhouse but..... Anyway, I got up the nerve to call him today and ask to have it re-done. He agreed to come back next week. Said he'd only charge for materials (different flooring - more $$ I'm sure) but not for labor. Oh well. No wonder I have a reputation for being picky. :(

I wondered if you want pressure treated wood there? I'm sure it's not the 'image of old' that you'd or I want, but if it's in contact with the ground (maybe it isn't?) it would last a lot longer. Will you tack a scrap behind the small opening in the bottom of the door to keep little critters out? You could paint it black so it would LOOK like there's still a hole there. :-)

Hi My3dogs. No, the floor won't be sitting on the ground. There is a pit underneath, filled pretty much to the top with trash (not "other"). But you know, good point about treated wood anyway. After all, the porches have treated wood but then again there is a roof over the floor in the outhouse and not the porches. I guess I always assume contractors automatically know what to do. But yeah, they don't get that "image of old" you mention. The only guy who does is the musician friend of mine who used to buy and flip old houses. He fixed the siding around the bottom of my house. Took great care to do it right. But he's so busy and only does the occasional carpenter job.

Probably won't patch the hole in the door. If I told the guy I was going to patch it and then paint the patch black he'd probably leave and never come back. :)

Oh, I understand. :-) Sitting here laughing knowing that the guys who have worked for me over the years know that I am likely to come up with a strange idea or two!

Thanks, good to know there are kindred spirits out there.

I have a working outhouse, although not an old one and no 'pit', just a bucket for 'number 1'! I remember the outhouse at my Grandparents farm on the prairies, still a solid structure 60 years later!

Here's ours.

The flying pig is because we figured we'd get our house finished when pigs fly!

Great privies!

I was going to convert mine into an emergency bathroom for when the power went out, thus no flushing toilet. I envisioned sitting a bucket or one of those campers' toilets in there. But then I finally got the standby generator. Anyway, by that time the floor had caved in.

This morning as I went out to take care of the cats I'm really seeing for the first time how much the structure is leaning. Seems as tho it has changed over the summer. Perhaps the floor actually buckled. Hope I don't have that same thing happen to the new floor. It's might get into the 50's tomorrow so I'll slap some primer on that siding.

I've been saving to have the house and all three outbuildings painted next summer.