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The "Hunting gear" storage shed project
Rancid Crabtree:
All the trusses are braced and reinforced.
In order to work safe while installing the roof decking and later shingling, we built a temporary scaffolding. (Ladders suck) Then it was time to trim the truss tails and install sub facia. Having scaffolding helps in doing a straight and square job that shows up when viewed from the ground.
Rancid Crabtree:
Time to raise most (but not all) of the roof sheeting (1/2? OSB) 4 Full sheets and 4 half sheets were nailed in place. The two sheets at the bottom of the overhung ?lean to? portion of the roof were not installed so that the 3 support posts and header could be installed. (They needed to be raised above the roof line in order to be dropped down into the holes that were dug)
The last sheets of roofing we not installed with the rest so there would be room to raise the 3 treated 4 x 4?s and their header to support the roofed overhang. Holes were dug (Through mostly rocky ground with some clay soil around them. This dirt really sucks for digging) Since there is not enough suitable soil to put back in the hole the support post holes are backfilled with paver base and tamped and settled with water. Then all three posts all were trimmed to the same height and the 4 x 4 header beam raised and installed. All the truss tails were then nailed to the header beam and trimmed and the sub facia installed. Then the last sheets of roof decking installed.
Rancid Crabtree:
Before we can shingle we have to install the metal drip edge. Before the metal drip edge is the final trim, before the final trim is the facia and soffit trim and none of that can be installed until more siding is installed so that where we focused our efforts next. Aside from hot dip galvanized nails, the sheets of fiber cement siding are also attached with construction adhesive. Then the first trim boards were installed along the roof line and all the seams between the sheets of cement board siding were caulked. While we were in trim mode we added some of the vert. corner trim and final roof edge trim pieces. Then all the trim was given two coats of exterior paint.
Rancid Crabtree:
The metal drip edge is installed which means we are ready to start shingling the roof.
We look forward to the weekends because it affords a lot of time to work on the shed. The weather doesn?t care so we suffered a rain delay.
We looked out the window and saw the local inspector checking out the progress.
When everything dried up we build more temporary scaffolding so we can safely work on the roofing.
The hole in the roof for the vent.
The back side is complete.
Nice straight lines.
Rancid Crabtree:
With the exception of the ridge cap, the front side of the roof is complete as the sun sets on another day.
The ridge cap is added the next morning and completes the roofing job.
Now that the roofing is complete the scaffolding is removed so the final wall can be closed in. The windows are the first thing to go in.
Then the last sheets of cement siding.
It?s starting to look like a shed now.
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