speaking the truth

Above is a picture of the side of the roof I wanted to get housewrap over today! Note that there is a tarp over it! Which I did NOT want to take all the way back off, because bugger that for a lark!

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But first, a break to demolish some pallets, first, cos the wood will want a couple days to dry before I start putting it on the wall.

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When I last posted about the front wall it was ALMOST but NOT QUITE finished to the top on the right side of the doorway. As the top picture shows, it is now finished ALL THE WAY UP on the right side of the doorway!

(Okay, the arch isn’t done, but I don’t need that to put the door in.)

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Y’all, salvage is where it’s AT.

I got two solid wood, huge, HEAVY doors. For five bucks apiece. When I build a shed, I’m making the walls out of DOORS, they’re cheaper than PLYWOOD.

ALSO I got a nice lil cabinet for fifteen. Seriously, this place is DANGEROUS.

Check out the cabinet:

That’s where it’s gonna go although I haven’t fastened it there yet. The inside is distressingly white but that’s fixable. It can hold cloaks! & shoes!

Anyway here’s a door. No, I can’t pick it up, but I can kind’ve shuffle it along & tilt it & lift the end.

This is not a recommended method for holding down one end of a cutting guide. Ask me how I know.

BUT HEY it’s doorlike? & there are lots of ways to fill in the gaps?

Next up: Hinges! & then I ask my roommate to hold the door up while I get it attached! I hope it doesn’t fall on them!

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I hadda go get something done!

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I was just gonna go do a LITTLE bit.

… oops.

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…but I mean. LOOK AT IT.

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But first, the looting.

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…okay I’m actually skipping the caulk jokes because I think y’all know them as well as I do by now.

There were about two weeks where I really couldn’t work on the tinker’s wagon for a variety of reasons, most having to do with the weather, but last week I FINALLY got it moved to the driveway, & I’ve gotten a fair amount of stuff done this week.

I got the last bit of the last wall done, & I’d planned to do the roof next, but I thought about it & realized it’d be easier to paint & finish up the walls before the roof goes on. Before I can paint, though, I’ve got to fill in a variety of gaps in the walls.

Some of them are just where one board buts up against the next, but there’s also places where I couldn’t get the boards to slot together properly, & there are some pretty big gaps around where the rafters meet the walls, too.

Basically I spent a lot of time squeezing out a lot of caulk & then smooshing it into places with my fingers. I’ve got the front wall & the left wall done, & most of the right wall, but I need more caulk. Again.

There’s also the gaps at the corners. Look, I’m just not very good at cutting things with any precision.

(That’s the worst one though, the rest are WAY less sucky.)

I went looking for wood corner trim at Home Despot, & found that it was 1) expensive, & 2) too small to cover that anyway. So! Plywood & DIY. & since I’m cutting it myself, why not take a bit more time & make it pretty?

…a lot more time. A lot.

But WOW is that gonna look nice.

I had to slap a couple pieces up quick to get the curve at the top marked out for the pieces going on the front & back walls. Check THIS out, & it’s not even painted yet:

I went inside to trace the line …

… & got all four of them marked & cut.

Et voila!

I’ve got the four pieces for the front & back walls cut, & I need to sand the edges & paint them. I’m hoping to get the sanding done tomorrow so I can paint them inside over the next couple days when it’s cold & crappy out.

The four shorter pieces for the side walls are marked out, & I started cutting the first one today but only got partway before the jigsaw battery died. I have more batteries, but I needed a break anyway — using the jigsaw for too long at a stretch makes my hand ache, because the grip is just too big. I’m gonna see how many of those I can get cut out & sanded tomorrow, too, but sanding all those short bits is slow, so who knows.

I’m getting there. It feels slow as hell, but I AM getting there.

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

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