Catching up 3
Oct. 9th, 2011 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI spent most of the past week (well, three days, so technically not *most*) helping rebuild Martin's workshop, which burned down in January.
One of Martin's friends had brought in a Habitat For Humanity crew and put up the two long walls the weekend before I got there (with attendant excitement but nobody was hurt, and the back wall did *not* fall down the hill) so it remained to me to help with putting up the two short walls.
We did the north wall first, because it was relatively easy, having no windows or doors. We had to frame up two pieces with 16 inch on center studs and an overhang of the siding to cover the framing on the ends of the long walls, which required a little figuring but wasn't that hard. Martin's grandson, who was terribly excited about the whole thing and wanted to be everywhere Martin was, to the extent of following him up the ladder, was the main wrinkle in this project. But even so, we got that wall up and sided in one day.
The second day was a pretty long one; we framed out the remaining wall, which had two windows and a door, and thus required all sorts of different sizes of framing 2 x 4s and short pieces where the 16 inch on center studs should have gone but couldn't because there was a window in the way. We got that wall framed and up and three pieces of plywood on.
The third day we got the last 2 1/2 pieces of plywood on (which was more work than you'd think because we where at the point where the floor was highest above the hillside and had only three people to hold/nail plywood. But we did it without anyone falling off a ladder or getting punctured or anything. We also started putting siding on the sill plate (the floor and everything under it) because that has to be kept dry.
The next step involves putting on the roof, but the roof trusses were being made offsite and weren't ready to go. Martin hadn't thought we'd get that far. But the walls are up, and he's going to have a lot of clear space inside. The old building had been built in two stages and had a wall in the middle that the new one won't have, which will make moving boards around easier.
I suspect the roof will go on either next weekend, when I'm helping paint a house in Atlanta, or the weekend after next, when I'm at OVFF. But if it happens on a weekend when I'm free I will be happy to help.
One of Martin's friends had brought in a Habitat For Humanity crew and put up the two long walls the weekend before I got there (with attendant excitement but nobody was hurt, and the back wall did *not* fall down the hill) so it remained to me to help with putting up the two short walls.
We did the north wall first, because it was relatively easy, having no windows or doors. We had to frame up two pieces with 16 inch on center studs and an overhang of the siding to cover the framing on the ends of the long walls, which required a little figuring but wasn't that hard. Martin's grandson, who was terribly excited about the whole thing and wanted to be everywhere Martin was, to the extent of following him up the ladder, was the main wrinkle in this project. But even so, we got that wall up and sided in one day.
The second day was a pretty long one; we framed out the remaining wall, which had two windows and a door, and thus required all sorts of different sizes of framing 2 x 4s and short pieces where the 16 inch on center studs should have gone but couldn't because there was a window in the way. We got that wall framed and up and three pieces of plywood on.
The third day we got the last 2 1/2 pieces of plywood on (which was more work than you'd think because we where at the point where the floor was highest above the hillside and had only three people to hold/nail plywood. But we did it without anyone falling off a ladder or getting punctured or anything. We also started putting siding on the sill plate (the floor and everything under it) because that has to be kept dry.
The next step involves putting on the roof, but the roof trusses were being made offsite and weren't ready to go. Martin hadn't thought we'd get that far. But the walls are up, and he's going to have a lot of clear space inside. The old building had been built in two stages and had a wall in the middle that the new one won't have, which will make moving boards around easier.
I suspect the roof will go on either next weekend, when I'm helping paint a house in Atlanta, or the weekend after next, when I'm at OVFF. But if it happens on a weekend when I'm free I will be happy to help.
