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jamoni:
Yup.  St. Louis.  It was hovering in the high fifties all weekend.  Hoorah!
Of course, that meant mud mud mud while this floor went up.  After the shed is up I'll need to throw down some grass seed and hope it grows.
I still need to get some bricks to toss under there for a little more support.
jamoni:



The weather has been to bad to work on the shed lately.  Too wet, too cold.  However, this weekend promised to be clear, though cold.  
So I called a bunch of friends over for a barnraising.  In only a couple of hours, we put up the walls and gables.  
The only issue is that the doorframe somehow warped or got tweaked while in storage.  I suspect moisture warped it.  So the door wants to hang a little crooked.  What I need to do is remove one board in the frame and replace it with a straight one.  Then I'll need to shim it level and reset the trim.  Not too big a deal, but annoying.  
Tomorrow's task is to put up the roof joists and the roof.  I'll need to reshingle it, so until that happens, I'm going to have a tarp on the roof for weatherproofing.  Hopefully I'll get to that next weekend.
Then it's just a matter of trim and paint on the outside, plus setting up the inside.  :)
Bernd:
Looking good jamoni.

Weather report for the deep south dosen't sound to pleasant. Doesn't look like you've got a lot of snow. But that damp cold is tuff to take. Hang in there Punxsutawney Phil will give us the weather report for the next 6 weeks. I'm sure he's going to say 6 more weeks of winter.  :lol:

Bernd
jamoni:
Well, I didn't quite reach the stage I wanted to today.  I had hoped to have the roof all the way on, but I spent some time with my son this morning, instead of busting my butt on the shed.  Then I had to run to the hardware store for plywood, nails, 2x4s, and a circular saw.  I had to cut out a total of 42 truss plates: 14 at 140* and 28 at 135*:



I then had to take the individual truss pieces, measure out the angles, and nail them to the truss plates:


All done:


Now let's put them in place!


By the time they were all up, it was well past sundown, and the neighbors had probably had enough of hammering.  Also, it was getting real cold, realquick!  So I opted to brace the trusses, and cover up with a tarp, rather than continue on with the roofing:


 Hopefully the weather will hold, and I'll get off early a couple days this week, so I can finish up the roof by next weekend. 
jamoni:
Well, we were pretty slow at work today, so I asked off.  I swung by the hardware store to get tarpaper, a hammer stapler, and staples.  More $$$$ gone.  :doh:
Anyway, I got home and hit it pretty hard.  I first had to strip all the old shingles off the roof, then pull all the nails in the boards.  WOW.  That was some hard work.  Once done with that, I put the sheathing on the lower parts of the roof.  I would have done those last, but since there is a roof vent, and the top sheathing doesn't touch in the middle, the only way to get the angles right was to do the bottom ones first, indexed along the sill, then index the top ones to the bottom ones.
I had a pretty hard time placing those by myself.  What I ended up doing was driving a nail in the sill horizontally at either end. I'd rest one end of the sheathing on the nail, then lift the other end up until I could rest it on the second nail.  Then I'd bump it over onto the sill and push it into place.  A little risky, and I did drop one board, but I was ready for it and got out of the way.  I then tacked each board in place. 
Next I had to somehow get the top sheathing on top of the shed.  Since I already had some girders inside, I built a little platform with some scrap wood, and laid it on top of the girders.  I'd stand the sheet up vertically, then climb up to my platfrom and lift it straight up and out the top.  This was just plain TOUGH.  Still, I got it done.  Once I had the sheets on top, I tacked them down as well.

At this point, everything lined up okay, so I climbed up on the roof and went to town with my hammer, driving nails every six inches into the trusses.  That roof is NOT coming off.  :)

At that point I was exhausted, so I opted to do the tarpaper this weekend.  I put up my tarp, cleaned up the yard, and tossed all the shingles into my truck:

Unfortunately I won't be able to get to the dump for a few days.  On the bright side, I'll have excellent traction if it snows!
So, this weekend I need to add the roof peak, tarpaper the roof, fix the doors, trim the whole thing, and caulk all the joints.  Hopefully the weather will hold!
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