The Horizon of Finishdom within Sight

Attached are pictures of the two doors up and framed in.

Also, you see the east wall taking shape, including the only operational window in the place.

Doors come for free; one from Ralph (neighbor) and one from Tim's sister (Tim worked with me a couple of days last month.). They included the frames, so that made things so much easier.

The window was a find in an abandoned storage unit.  It's a double paned window with a screen.  30"x19", so not huge, but perfect for my widdle space.

The two sliding glass doors are from my cache of them gleaned at the apartment complex in Mississippi over two years ago.

A Craigslist sale of Shawn's old college bike a week ago netted $300 for The Cause as well. I used the 'free money' to buy my roofing material, a good 1"X6"X10' fascia board, and some other things.

I'm all goose pimply like a great pimply goose over the progress and the fact that it's all costing so little.

By the way, any ideas out there concerning color schemes?  I'm thinking khaki green exterior walls with white trim and white doors.

East Facing Side.  Note window on left (SE corner).

ETC (Estimated Time of Completion) now mid-October.

South Facing Side.  Window/Door/Window.

Progress (Babbitt-like, He Cried)!!

With the shed sorta finished, I started on the floor joists and the supports.

Again, the joists are 2x6s 10' long and the end caps are 2x6s at 12'.  2x6s act as cross supports.

What I did was (temporarily) nail down some 1/2" plywood in one corner as a work area and staging place--I'll take it up later.

After all cross supports are in place, I'll put down some gravel under the structure, then put 1/2" Styrofoam(tm) insulation and add 3/4" plywood for the subfloor.

It's coming along.

And remember--all of this--including nails, hammers, saws, wood, and insulation--has cost me nothing other than gas money!

A Break in the Clouds

It's now March, and these photos detail some of the work that's been done since the New Year.  The Dek Block has been set and leveled for the floor joists.  Mike Compton of Compton's Sawmill in Macon County gave me some great poplar floor joists--2x6 size ten feet long and then two twelve foot 2x6s for the end caps on the joist structure.

Also, the photos reveal that an ersatz shed has been put up some 30 feet behind the house site where the lawn tractor can be out from under direct rain/wetness now.  I have four posts up (buried at 18") and cross pieces, but the tin roofing you see here is only sitting there for now.  I have several more 'gleaned' pieces of metal roofing on site that I will cut to size and attach to the purlins.  By the way, all wood seen here has been gleaned from curb alerts, dumpsters, or Craigslist.

More and soon.