mystreba
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Just eight days after buying the new tractor I finally got it into the shed, and emptied all my lawn equipment out of the garage - the wife is very happy indeed. Someone's getting lucky tonight! The wife's new car that is - it will be snug and warm in the garage.
The bad news is that the shed pretty much needs rebuilding. But that comes as no suprise, since every square inch of this property needs rebuilding. The shed was constructed with T-111, but instead of flashing the horizontal butt-joints, they just covered the joints with treated 1x6 and caulked it. This is an absolutely ingenious method of trapping moisture against the most vulnerable part of the wood - the end grain. To completely seal the shed's fate, they also buried the other end below grade. That's doubly ingenious! :thumbsup:
They say that the three most important things in real estate are location, location and location. I say the three most important things are flashing, flashing and flashing.
The good news is that the framing is still solid, and there was a ready-made double-wide doorway between two 4x4 posts. All I have to do is install a jamb to make it plumb and I'm good to go. Once I replace all that T-111 siding that is.
Of course, if I had the time I'd bulldoze the whole thing and pour a pad, but with all the other work that needs done around here, I'm in triage mode.
Anyway this is all temporary since all the lawn equipment goes back into the barn as soon as I install the new roof. But since that's not on the honey-do list, it won't likely get done for a while.
The bad news is that the shed pretty much needs rebuilding. But that comes as no suprise, since every square inch of this property needs rebuilding. The shed was constructed with T-111, but instead of flashing the horizontal butt-joints, they just covered the joints with treated 1x6 and caulked it. This is an absolutely ingenious method of trapping moisture against the most vulnerable part of the wood - the end grain. To completely seal the shed's fate, they also buried the other end below grade. That's doubly ingenious! :thumbsup:
They say that the three most important things in real estate are location, location and location. I say the three most important things are flashing, flashing and flashing.
The good news is that the framing is still solid, and there was a ready-made double-wide doorway between two 4x4 posts. All I have to do is install a jamb to make it plumb and I'm good to go. Once I replace all that T-111 siding that is.
Of course, if I had the time I'd bulldoze the whole thing and pour a pad, but with all the other work that needs done around here, I'm in triage mode.
Anyway this is all temporary since all the lawn equipment goes back into the barn as soon as I install the new roof. But since that's not on the honey-do list, it won't likely get done for a while.