Kenneth FinneganSo I've got this empty concrete pad on the side of my house.
It used to have a rotted out 12x24' shed on it, but I demolished that last fall and figured I could do something better... 🧵
Day one was grinding down the high spots with a diamond cup wheel. $75 for the cup wheel and corded angle grinder.
Day two is opening up the cracks with a diamond cut disc and filling them with crack sealer. $40 for the diamond discs and crack filler.
My dad volunteered to come down and help me restack all of the lumber inside of the fence and all in its own piles so I can get to all of it.
Only took the two of us about 2 hours to shuttle everything back there.
The inaugural wall frame. Now just fill with studs, repeat five more times, attach together, add roof, and bongo bango, you've got yourself a shed.
The inaugural mistake! I meant to leave that stud out so I'd have room to nail the header in.
So I guess we've moved to the "improvising" stage of this project.
Day two of framing my new shed. I woke up this morning and can still move, but I'm beginning to suspect that I don't want to quit my job and start framing houses for a living.
One wall panel done, second layout done. Now we just need to cut some studs and do it again.
The second panel went together much faster.
The site supervisor is sleeping in my office.
One of my neighbors came by to help me with the big lift. So we've got the tallest wall up in the air; everything from here on is lighter.
Alright. I found my limit. It is too hot and going back outside after noon was stupid. 🥵
We're up to a big J, which is exactly where I was hoping to get to today since this means the walls aren't all only held up with 2x4 braces and can kind of stand on its own.
The nice thing about driving a pickup truck is that when I tweak the shed design at the last minute and end up short a few 12 foot boards, I can just pick them up at the Home Depot.
We had some fog roll in this morning, so I took the opportunity to put a quick 90 minutes into framing another wall panel before it got hot today.
First good look of where the door is going and what the total footprint of the shed looks like.
Pat came over and helped me get the first row of OSB up, so the shed is finally stable enough I don't need to worry about a wind storm coming through.
Driving Tapcons freaking sucks and I don't want to talk about it.
Michael K Johnson@kwf I bought a Bosch 8 amp proper SDS+ hammer drill and it made a world of difference. It cost the same as two days of renting it...
@mcdanlj I'm making do with a 1/2" hammer drill atm, but yes. I am filled with regret that I didn't go with something larger.
@kwf Here's another unexpected benefit: I needed to drive nails overhead, up into old, dried treated lumber. I couldn't manage to do it swinging a hammer. I put an impact socket into the Bosch, put it over the nail heads in hammer-but-don't-twist mode, and drove those nails in about 2 seconds flat.
I don't use it much, but when I need it, it sure comes in clutch.