Finish the shed roof

 I did finally get that shed on the Boone land into the dry

One side looked ok

Got it wrapped

That's a complete roof!

Land Problems

 

Yep, that's a no trespassing sign right in the middle of what I thought was my driveway. Actually that sign is the corner of my lot, and the property goes downhill from there. So I need to reset my plans for the land, and I still have to finish the shed.

The lot lines slant in a direction that is not parallel with the slope of the hillside. Would have been nice if the realtors would have shown us that. Would have been nice if I could have found a lawyer to sue the realtors after we found this, but nobody would actually file the suit. They are just too busy. it's very frustrating.

This marker shows the actual property line down the hill from my shed. that I clearly built on the neighboring property. SMH

Roofing the shed

 I did get some rain! The tarps held, but wow did it rain. It took me forever to get the tarps down before I could start roofing again. The first thing I had to do was actually take down the ridge beam and set it again so I could get a straighter ridge, then hang the rest of the roof joists.

Tarp roof is only so good

Water testicles hehe

The other side

After dumping the water and removing the tarps, I reset the ridge beam to the right height and added the rest of the joists

Sheeted the gable walls and started the roof

Blocking for the overhangs

Finished sheeting and added tar paper

taped a copy of the house floor plans to the inside of the door

Then I took Ella to a movie. we're huge anime fans

This trip up I got everything ready to shingle, then just ran out of time before I could start. It's starting to look like a shed now! In the dry!

Let's build a shed!

 On the land in Boone, step 1 is to build a shed after I staked out where I wanted to put the house. There is a post script to that shed, but it starts with building it.

Loaded down and ready to build

The blocks beside the driveway are where we're going to build

It's a build site!

Blocks are in the ground

Floor framing is on and leveled

Now with more subfloor!

First wall is standing

2nd wall got sheeted before standing

Now with more walls

Carpenter up!

Cut the roof rafters and stood up the ridge beam

I covered this in tarps because I ran out of time to finish getting the roof put up and it was supposed to rain. See tomorrow's post for the result of that haha

This was Easter weekend so I had a long time to get this done. The trick was that Lowe's was closed for Easter Sunday, so I lost half a day when we ran out of supplies. I used a generator to run the tools for the first time and that worked out very well until I ran out gas. We got an airbnb for the long weekend so I could get out and build this with Kelley, her mom stayed with the kids. It went up pretty quick and I'm pretty happy with the way this part turned out. In the end, the ridge beam is pretty warped so I had a really tough time getting a flat roof haha

Boone trip to the Land

 This didn't really work out like this but I'm posting the pictures anyway. 

Outline of the house

Outline of the shed (that will be prominent later)

So optimistic, so wrong

hint: this is not our driveway

Turns out, none of this was real. I planned out a nice house to build next to this existing driveway, which was the biggest draw to buying the land. And the driveway was halfway into the next lot, not ours at all.