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Hey there Folks,
Just wanted to provide an update on my SHED building project, and we all know how we love photos, so I took a few!
First, got off work 5pm Friday, went directly to LOWES, and started shopping, filled out the truck rental app, and then proceeded to FILL 2 of those wood carts FULL of supplies, along with a basket!
By then it was 8pm! Went back to Cust. Svce, dumbas* white trash FAT customer was filling out a credit app. but the Employee tried to work with me inbetween, went thru 2 sets of keys...that didn't fit the only truck they had left, had to call a manager, bring the MASTER key, finally got the truck at 8:30pm.
They close at 10pm! I only live 7 hwy miles away, but was getting a bit tired not having eaten dinner yet, so I was able to get one of the employees to assist me in loading the supplies into the truck, took 15 minutes! Got it home, drove up onto the lawn beside the house. Was actually easier to unload the supplies since I merely had to pull them off the truck and let them drop on the ground.
But, I received my first injury by mistepping as I walked off of the rising pile, and twisted my right ankle!
But got it unloaded by 9:15, had to gas it up, then back to turn it back in, didn't have to pay for any overtime! 
Rental=$19.95 + $6.00 gas beats their $60.00 delivery fee!! 
I won't print a list of supplies YET, but you can see just how much!
Here I am decked out with my NEW Toolman belt hammer holder/multiple nail pouch/and other slot/pockets!! I later figured where to store the carpenter's pencil!
Okay, here's the 4x6x12 length treated lumber runners and the 2x4x8 cross beams and other framing studs layed out, I cut the cross beams to length later!
I started on this around 9 am, had the frame up by 2:30pm!
BTW, I'm 6'6" tall, you'll notice the head clearance of the top rails, NO WIMPEE barely 6' tall shed for me!!
Due to the siding pattern on the main house with horizontal strips, I decided to do the same with the 8" OC Hardiboards, this was the technique I used to put the second one up. I used two 2x4's wedged just at the top edge of the first panel, then layed the second panel down, and slid it up, and flipped it into position, it would drop down and catch on it's mating seam, then I would pull the 2x4 up, and rewedge it against the now positioned upper panel to hold it in place, then I would proceed to nail it on!!
Here's the 25/32's OSB 4'x8' panels floor after the 3 panels were laid. I wanted to keep the full 8' long floor space on the inside, so that caused my framing to be a little wider on the ends than the length of my side panels, but I'll be adding some 1x4x8 trim pieces sealed and painted as accents!
This was the end of the first day(Saturday), it was raining/drizzling on and off most of the day, but it came a heavier rain around 7pm, so I called it quits!
The Second day(SUNDAY) was planned for the roof! Here's the first trellis? in place, I got "fairly" good at using the roofing square to layout the 22.5 degree and 77.5 degree cuts needed to make the roof beams, then used some 7/16" OSB for the extra center brace, was left over from the ripping of the 60" sections from the SIX 4x8 panels I had for the roof! You can see the other fabbed trellis and panels against the shed!
And here's the shed with the ROOF complete as far as I could get to, all the trellis nailed, all 6 panels on, YES, the roof does have a slight DIP in the middle...it's a real PITA to get those trellis ALL exactly even!! Thankfully 7/16" OSB is forgiving, and I was able to secure it down anyways!!!! 
Not bad progress for 2 days for a TOTAL do it MYSELF, no help from anybody during the whole thing! Sorry, just had to toot my horn!
Only other physical injuries are a partial purple left index finger tip and nail, and only 1 blister on my right index finger....ah, so that's what work gloves are for!! I won't call the Lactic Acid buildup in my legs an injury, just an expected side effect.....BTW, can someone call me crane to help me get up out of my computer chair and into bed!! 
Just wanted to provide an update on my SHED building project, and we all know how we love photos, so I took a few!
First, got off work 5pm Friday, went directly to LOWES, and started shopping, filled out the truck rental app, and then proceeded to FILL 2 of those wood carts FULL of supplies, along with a basket!
By then it was 8pm! Went back to Cust. Svce, dumbas* white trash FAT customer was filling out a credit app. but the Employee tried to work with me inbetween, went thru 2 sets of keys...that didn't fit the only truck they had left, had to call a manager, bring the MASTER key, finally got the truck at 8:30pm. They close at 10pm! I only live 7 hwy miles away, but was getting a bit tired not having eaten dinner yet, so I was able to get one of the employees to assist me in loading the supplies into the truck, took 15 minutes! Got it home, drove up onto the lawn beside the house. Was actually easier to unload the supplies since I merely had to pull them off the truck and let them drop on the ground.
But, I received my first injury by mistepping as I walked off of the rising pile, and twisted my right ankle!
But got it unloaded by 9:15, had to gas it up, then back to turn it back in, didn't have to pay for any overtime! Rental=$19.95 + $6.00 gas beats their $60.00 delivery fee!! I won't print a list of supplies YET, but you can see just how much!
Here I am decked out with my NEW Toolman belt hammer holder/multiple nail pouch/and other slot/pockets!! I later figured where to store the carpenter's pencil!
Okay, here's the 4x6x12 length treated lumber runners and the 2x4x8 cross beams and other framing studs layed out, I cut the cross beams to length later!
I started on this around 9 am, had the frame up by 2:30pm!
BTW, I'm 6'6" tall, you'll notice the head clearance of the top rails, NO WIMPEE barely 6' tall shed for me!!
Due to the siding pattern on the main house with horizontal strips, I decided to do the same with the 8" OC Hardiboards, this was the technique I used to put the second one up. I used two 2x4's wedged just at the top edge of the first panel, then layed the second panel down, and slid it up, and flipped it into position, it would drop down and catch on it's mating seam, then I would pull the 2x4 up, and rewedge it against the now positioned upper panel to hold it in place, then I would proceed to nail it on!!
Here's the 25/32's OSB 4'x8' panels floor after the 3 panels were laid. I wanted to keep the full 8' long floor space on the inside, so that caused my framing to be a little wider on the ends than the length of my side panels, but I'll be adding some 1x4x8 trim pieces sealed and painted as accents!
This was the end of the first day(Saturday), it was raining/drizzling on and off most of the day, but it came a heavier rain around 7pm, so I called it quits!
The Second day(SUNDAY) was planned for the roof! Here's the first trellis? in place, I got "fairly" good at using the roofing square to layout the 22.5 degree and 77.5 degree cuts needed to make the roof beams, then used some 7/16" OSB for the extra center brace, was left over from the ripping of the 60" sections from the SIX 4x8 panels I had for the roof! You can see the other fabbed trellis and panels against the shed!
And here's the shed with the ROOF complete as far as I could get to, all the trellis nailed, all 6 panels on, YES, the roof does have a slight DIP in the middle...it's a real PITA to get those trellis ALL exactly even!!
Thankfully 7/16" OSB is forgiving, and I was able to secure it down anyways!!!! Not bad progress for 2 days for a TOTAL do it MYSELF, no help from anybody during the whole thing! Sorry, just had to toot my horn!
Only other physical injuries are a partial purple left index finger tip and nail
, and only 1 blister on my right index finger....ah, so that's what work gloves are for!! I won't call the Lactic Acid buildup in my legs an injury, just an expected side effect.....BTW, can someone call me crane to help me get up out of my computer chair and into bed!!
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