Tool Shed Beginnings (8/12/2016)

Sheralee and I were at the property again this past week.  We were up the weekend of the 5th, but Sheralee met me there after detouring in Phoenix with Baylee.  Unfortunately, we had some water/leaking issues to deal with over that weekend.  When we removed the loft we basically removed our roof from the add-on bathroom.  We weren’t very smart about that, and it rained a couple inches of that week.  I arrived on Friday, after work, and mud-going the whole way up.  When I got there, we had water leaking in from between our joined containers and the bathroom had been soaked, from water running down the walls.  We spent that weekend draping thick plastic over the entire roof.  Soggy stuff man.

Anyways, on to this past weekend, the 12th, we arrived after sunset.  I had hoped to catch some of the Perseid meteor, but no luck.  I did see one shooting start just before we headed to bed.  That was it.

Saturday morning Sheralee and I started work on our new shed, which will store all of our tools/hardware…hence creating some space in our container to install our wood stove and rearrange our living quarters.

The shed base is going to be a platform we put together last year for people to sleep on with a tent.  It was never really used, so I thought why not put a shed on top of that.  We planned out the materials we would need to level out the shed base (platform).

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After some shifting of gravel and leveling we finally go it right where we wanted it.  It is nice and sturdy.  Then I started off on the rear wall.  All of the material was coming from the loft we removed in past weeks.

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Turns out I should have done the construction opposite, making the front wall taller…having the rain water run off the back, but what does it really matter? ha.  The tallest wall ended up being the back wall and the water will run off the front.
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Since we have a left over pre-hung door we decided to use that in our shed.
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That was it for Saturday.  We had some company arrive at the ranch Saturday, Sheralee’s father Jerry and Baylee came up from Phoenix to stay the night.

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Sunday I continued on with the shed, working on the two side walls, measuring out for the windows that will be installed.

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I installed a couple of the ceiling joists, with the material/joist hangers on hand.  I got a lot more done than I thought I would, which was nice.

Sheralee created some new bench seating around our firepit, which is awesome!  We plan on having some visitors soon, and this will help with that

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What a great concept and thought out.  I was most proud of the use of the materials we have on hand.

That was about it for this weekend.  There seems to be a lot in play right now with things….around our ranch, so we might have some news next week.  We shall see.  Love up there and can’t wait to get back.  Should get most/all of the sheathing up on the shed, and I know Sheralee will be happy about removing items from our containers, once and for all! ha.