Howdy everyone,
Last weekend began the prep work for my new storage building. YIPPEEE!!
Here's the old one.
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Ain't she a nice one???? I've hated this building since we bought it 10 years ago. The 4' side walls are useless for shelving. It's also just about to fall down thus the new storage building project that I've been wanting to do for a couple years.
I decided that behind the veggie garden next to the privacy fence would be the best spot. I measured out the area and Round up'ed the grass. I got my brother to bring his tractor and do some excavation work right where the building will be so the floor would be as low as possible. I was concerned about my lawn mower high centering and I didn't want a really long ramp to make it work if the floor was way off the ground.
Here's the pad after the excavation.
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Materials were delivered a couple days ago and Payton gave me a hand getting all the plastic and landscape timbers down in the 16' X 25' area. I'll use the extra gravel area for parking my lawn aerator, dethatcher etc...
Yesterday morning was gravel delivery. This is when things took a turn for the worse.It rained a couple days earlier this week so the ground was pretty soft. When the rear tires of the dump truck hit the plastic it started to sink. The tires spun and yanked all the plastic under the truck. Dang!!! The driver spun the tires back the other way and gave me a hand getting the plastic back as well as could be. Unfortunately he had to just dump the load right there.
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Payton and I began shoveling. I couldn't even use my little tractor because of the same trouble with the plastic. After a good bit of shoveling we determined that we had WAY too much gravel. I covered more ground with plastic and made the pad 20 feet longer and spread the gravel. No such thing as too much parking room I guess.
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This morinin' at 7:00 sharp my good buddy Jim arrived and we began building. First was the floor system. 2X6's treated on 3 treated 4X4's on the compacted gravel should be good enough.
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By 6:30 this evening we were this far...
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Jim will be back for more punishment at 8:00 in the morning. Hopefully by the end of day 2 of construction it will be looking more like a storage building. Cheryl and Payton were of great help too. Payton pitched in with the framing and Cheryl spent the day priming the cedar trim and painting the siding so we got a nice head start there.
I'll post more tomorrow evening...if I'm able. I'm 'bout pooped after yesterdays shoveling and today's framing but I think it's gonna be a fine storage building.
Thanks for looking,
Terry
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