Excellent!! Glad to see your progress!!
Excellent!! Glad to see your progress!!
Well the time had finally came when I was ready to do the build. My cousin and I drove out to Ohio last Tuesday in the early morning and my brother and 2 other buddies drive out Tuesday night. I got there early enough to go pickup 3 loads of stone to backfill the poured walls and get everything set up. Tuesday night it started torrential downpours which lasted on and off for almost 24 hours. The whole build site was a muddy mess and it definitely slowed progress and lowered workers moral. All we got done Wednesday was the floor joists and floor boards put down.
Thursday we got all the walls up and started on the roof joists. Friday noon time my cousin and my other buddy had to go home so it was down to 3 of us. Friday we finished the roof trusses and started putting all the roof boards on. The biggest obstacle in that was the Amish didn't have any of the trusses on 4' centers and every board was cut to fit so we basically had to lay every piece out to see what number was on it when we tore it down.
Saturday we started putting the foam board insulation on top of the roof boards and then sheeted with OSB plywood so when the metal roof is screwed down there wont be any chance of a screw hitting between roof boards. We came up 3 sheets short on OSB so we had to wait until Monday to get the plywood to finish.
I made a jib boom for my skidloader to lift the walls and the gables into place. It id its job but at times the square tubing on boom was flexing like a fishing pole. It was high stress when I was in loader placing the walls. The other scary thing was being up on the back roof without the proper safety equipment but it had to be done.
I have a contractor coming in to put a dark green metal roof on within the next 2 weeks. Next for me is putting in the sewer system, digging a 300yard line ditch to street for electric, gas and water and all the interior work.
Here are a few more pics. Everything turned out great and I'm very excited to get back out there.
Jim it looks outstanding. Really nice job.
“I don't partake in assembly-line convenience. I don't say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me.” ~ Ted Nugent
looking good, love the fact you did it on a full basement/garage!
I am sure that part will get tons of use, stays cooler in summer, and a great place to clean deer in the fall
plus all the other million uses a garage gets
keep up the good work!
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