Shed Pt. 2

Howdy; man it's been a while huh? I'm officially proud to announce that the shed project is finished...well.... it's a functioning shed :) What I mean by that is, we're still getting shelves inside as well as doing the insulation. I know what you're thinking though..."insulation....in Florida?" however, it's more or less to keep the heat out and keep it cool inside...trust me... it works. :)

So after we had all the walls up with it being housewrapped, we started putting up the Hardi board siding. This definitely got interesting when it came time to do the higher parts on ladders with just two guys. In fact, almost everything was done on ladders from this point on aside from pre-building the trusses. We got the two end trusses up and then fixed the cat-beam into place. Then it was a matter of putting up each truss, one of us on either side. After the trusses were up we had to haul up the sheets of plywood for the roof, cover it in housewrap as well and then roll out the "low slope" roofing. This is essentially like tiling but it actually rolls out and is a bit easier to do. Then we painted on some "siliconizer" (sp? don't have time to check) for more protection from weather (This is the place to be in a storm, folks lol...at least if you live on Heavenly St) All that was left for the actual construction process was painting and putting on a door which we built from 2x4's and put some hardi board over that too. Shelves are still being put up in the inside as well as the insulation being finished, however it's a fully functioning shed with stuff in it already including Sean's workout machine. The shed was painted this past Saturday with the help of BMW students who were on the street for their free weekend in between terms. So in all the shed is 16' x 12' and probably about 13' high so it's no wonder it has gained the nickname "the barn" :) It was a lot of fun to build and it took us three weekends with a couple hours of work on it every evening after working at Teen Missions. We just beat daylight savings time ending as well which helped us have more daylight.

I wanted to give you a supplies list so here's the initial one. More things were bought like insulation and the low slope.

90 2x4's 8 feet long
6 2x4's 16 feet long
6 2x4's 12 feet long
11 2x6's 16 feet long
3 2x6's 12 feet long
16 sheets of plywood 4x8
17 4x8 8 in hardi paneling
22 hardi trim (to cover the connection points of the hardi boards)
1 roll of EasyGard housewrap
3 90 Lbs masonry blocks
4 footing blocks
16 solid blocks

Now you can see why it would take the two of us so long to unload the trailer from his front yard and lay it out in the backyard haha.

If you have Facebook you can see the pictures here at this link...if you don't have Facebook and want to see them, let me know and I'll figure out how to get them on here. Here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=121759&id=516543264

Until next time,

-Danny
Gal 2:20