tarpination & walls

[kellan_the_tabby]

After a long, lovely autumn without having to worry TOO much about things getting wet, it’s time for the winter precipitation.

I’d already planned to use a tarp for the roof, at least until I can afford something nicer, so I just ordered that a bit earlier than I would have otherwise & strapped it down over the rafters.

& by ‘strapped’ & mean I used a bunch of clip clamps & whatever else was hanging around. It wasn’t anything you’d call pretty.

Or very stable, it turns out. Monday I woke up to surprise!wind. I’d been working on the walls all weekend, but I hadn’t gotten to the roof (& I don’t have the plywood yet ANYWAY) so there was nothing for it: I had to get the tarp strapped back down.

I got SO MUCH done over the weekend, though. Here’s the front wall, FINISHED:

& the left side wall, _almost_ done. I need three more t&g boards & that’s DONE.

Also I collected every bungee cord I could lay my hands on & borrowed some tiedowns from my roommate, & THIS time the tarp is SECURE.

The inside really feels like an inside now!

I’ve got a tarp over the big back window & another over the side door, but I didn’t have yet another tarp for the front door, so I … improvised. With a door.

Specifically, the closet door I’d pulled off when I first moved in here. Suitably braced. Heck, I’d just use it for the real door, but it’s the hollow kind. Alas.

It’s all good. I’m gonna grab a couple nice sturdy wood doors from the abandoned house & cut those down.

I also moved the tinker’s wagon around to the lee side of the house. It’s still wooshy there but not nearly so bad. & everything stayed up while I was moving it! Which. Of course it was going to. Probably. I wasn’t worried that all the screws would spontaneously fall off. Too much.

It’s staying there until there’s ACTUALLY a roof & probably until I’ve got doors in & something to go over the window. & then it’s moving to the driveway outside my front window, cos it turns out if I can’t look out & make sure it’s still there every once in a while, I get all skitchy.

Also there’s less mud.

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Comments

[siliconshaman]

That's kind of the problem I have with my workshop at present. Early on in the year I got a whole load of ex-floor-boards free. So, I took the opportunity to replace the bodged chicken-wire and heavy tarp roof.. [it was always going to be temporary.] and replace it with a proper pitched roof.

Problem is... it's literally been the wettest year in the past 100+ years of records. As a consequence, the roof got built in a hurry. it's 99% water proof, but there's one leak I can't get to where the rain is coming in under the asphalt fabric, and running along an channel in between two of the boards.

Which means, if it ever stops raining long enough [and it hasn't so far in four months] I gotta rebuild one whole gable end now.. all because I ran out of time by a day, sometime around June.

[kellan_the_tabby]

AUGH, that's even worse than what I have going. o.0

[thewayne]

AND the side door hinge is going to be on the side of the hitch so if it comes open during transport the door won't be flung against the side with great force and damage?

(I know you're smart and figured that out, but I gotta check.)

[kellan_the_tabby]

Correct!

[cellio]

I continue to be amazed at the speed with which you're progressing!

[kellan_the_tabby]

... I guess it's not SO bad that I've basically taken two weeks off from working on it.