Okay, here is the shed rebuild so far that I hinted about in my head light conversion thread. I did not see this project being added onto my list of things to get done when I got home.
It all started with me wanting to organize the shed, so I went to Home Depot and bought a shelving unit to organize my gas cans, cordless tools, paint cans, etc, etc.
I want to put it in a place where there was a clip board holder screwed to the wall from the house’s previous owner. I pulled on it, and it came off the wall way too easy, so I pulled the paneling off the all to see what was behind it. All of the following damage was done by termites learning to hide behind all the paneling and not making their presence known at all…
This is a termite nest, the full width of the stud cavity and the full depth as well, about 4 ft tall:
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
I start pulling more and more paneling off the all, and remove a work bench and all the studs that would pull out by hand since they were so rotten. Here is the result. All of the studs came out, and the exterior planks are being held up by the siding outside of that being nailed and painted together:
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
The shed has a slab that was poured over an older slab. The new slab was formed up with cinder blocks, then the bottom plates were put on top of said cinder blocks. The end result was a nice hidden super highway of holes for the termites to come up and go right into the bottom plate while hiding behind the base boards:
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
I decide that since nothing is holding up the wall, I may as well add new framing now. I poured concrete into the holes, added anchor bolts, and build a new wall:
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
Once I new the ceiling wasn’t going anywhere, I pulled the hovering siding down:
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
I put T111 back up as a new sheeting that will be painted once it is all rebuild. Notice how the rest of the wall has a nice bow in it due to lack of support:
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
So far, this is all done in the little lean-to section that was added to my shed after the main section was built.
Here is the back wall of the lean to showing all that came off without the use of tools at all. All I have so far to remove any material is wear gloves, grab, and rip. That’s my dad posing in the pic. He lives for a good carpentry job. Its hard to see, but the main roof doesn’t touch that wall, it is a flat roof over that part:
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
Here is the rest of the wall gone, temp bracing installed, and yet more cinder blocks filled with concrete and anchor bolts. That has ended up being the official end of a days work for us. Tear down, haul to dump, clean, our concrete is a full day. Then framing and sheeting is another full day…
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
New framing and el-cheapo window from Home Depot installed, centered over the where the new work bench will go:
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
Here is the sheeting, and the wider, taller door way going into the lean-to installed. While I was at it, I installed a huge beam where the pitched roof met the flat roof. This eliminated a wall that used to be there so that the shed it opened up a lot more. It is 12 ft wide, then a post, then 4 more feet of beam. The idea is to be able to pull the car into the shed when it is done, and I can get more room to move the car further if I ever have to for some unforeseen reason even though the part under the pitched roof can fit the car.
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
Now, onto that wall that had the bow in it. This is now going into the main part of the shed. under the pitched roof.
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
Here are the doors I built to close in that door way going into the lean-to area:
By bigredtruck at 2012-05-30
I have to take more pics tomorrow, but the wall opposite where I put the window unit has been removed and concrete poured today.
Once that wall is done, the only thing left is the front wall where my driveway dead ends into.
I am going to put a 9ft wide double door there that will swing out into the driveway so I can pull the car into the shed, which will now be a garage.
The existing ceiling in the shed was about 6’4" tall. This is what happens when short cajuns build a shed. While I am not raising the roof any, I am going to vault the new ceiling in the shed to follow the roof pitch until it is 8ft tall. Then it will be a 8ft tall ceiling going flat across the main section. I put the added framing into the wall that is already done and the wall I will be framing tomorrow so that I will have a beefy steel beam running the width of the shed to hang a hoist from for future use of any heavy lifting projects.
Once this is done, then I will get back to working on the Cougar.
This is the last time I decide to clean and organize anything…
