My "Pinterest" Project Shed Build

[aart]

It's all in My Coop page.
I'm about 10 miles west of Paw Paw, for a couple decades now,
worked in Portage for years and lived in Kazoo for a couple decades too.
Was born and raised in the Metro Detroit area, but escaped, haha!
I love it here in the snowbelt..... a little less each year tho, kinda.
The heat and humidity do me in here, would not want to live farther south.

 

[Finnie]

It's all in My Coop page.
I'm about 10 miles west of Paw Paw, for a couple decades now,
worked in Portage for years and lived in Kazoo for a couple decades too.
Was born and raised in the Metro Detroit area, but escaped, haha!
I love it here in the snowbelt..... a little less each year tho, kinda.
The heat and humidity do me in here, would not want to live farther south.

Oh, I love it west of Paw Paw!

We are also escapees from Detroit! It's so weird there now when I go back to visit family.

I know what you mean about heat and humidity. June and July are killers here. Then about the middle of August the weather breaks and we get about three great months before winter. I don't know how people stand Florida and Texas!

I do miss the lake effect snow down here though.

 

[ShotGunCowgirl]

I am completely jealous! This is a beautiful build

 

[Finnie]

Thank you!

 

[Finnie]

OK, so another long weekend, and some more progress on the shed. Except that it started to rain today, and is not expected to let up for the whole next week. It turned out we had enough of the reclaimed wood to do all the sides and most of the back. There is just the gable above the back doors that is going to not match for a while, since we will be putting new cedar there. When the rain stops, I guess. And after my husband kills the hornets nests that are up there under the eaves...

But since it was raining today, he worked inside the shed, and swapped out the interior door for me. Here is how it looked with the door I didn't like, and the funny framing job the man did. (He made one side of the doorway smaller so he could use plywood for the door stop.)




And here is the re-framed opening my husband made today:


You can see that there is much less space between the two studs to the left of the door now. And the opening is taller at the top, too. All that is left is to attach proper door stops.

The door I didn't like:


And the door I do like:





So he did all that, and I did the window latches:



No two are the same.

There were a couple of original window locks that had to be removed to make the windows fit the openings, so I reused those, but then I had to buy latches for the rest of the windows. I liked the look of these casement window latches:



And here is how I rigged up the old latches:


A little awkward, but it works.

Some of the windows had original sash lifts, and some didn't. (This was because I bought 3 sets of antique double hung windows, so some are the tops and some are the bottoms. Only the bottoms had lifts.) I was going to leave them as they were, but seeing as how a couple of them are a tight fit, those needed some sort of handle to be able to pull them open. I found cheap ones on Amazon. One window swings very freely, so I left it without a handle.
Here is one of the new handles/sash lifts:


I think the next step in my project is to do the interior walls. That means I will have to measure exactly how big I plan to make my bank of nest boxes and frame the opening for that before I put the plywood on.

 

[TerryH]

Looking good Finnie!! That replacement door is SO much better!

 

[Finnie]

Thank you, Terry! Yes, I'm much happier with it.

 

[Finnie]

We finally got all of the siding put on!




No more wasps!

The one section that doesn't match is OK since it's the back anyway. It'll age.

$200 for just that little section. Just think how much we saved by reusing the old siding!



Here I am up on the ladder helping:


Don't worry, it was safe. We nailed that stool to the boards so it wouldn't tip over. Once I could no longer reach from there, we were at the narrower part of the gable. So he turned the ladder the regular way and was able to hold the shorter boards by himself.

And I fitted these tiny pieces by myself:

 

[TerryH]

It's gorgeous, Finnie!!

 

[Finnie]

Thank you, Terry!

Something that has me worried: when the man built the shed, he was nervous of doing the steep pitch. So he was distracted by that and he FORGOT to install the ridge vent!!!

And I didn't recognize that it was missing until my husband pointed it out Memorial Day Weekend. I contacted them, and they said they had a block of time coming up where they could come out and fix that. I'm quite nervous about what will be involved. I guess getting up there, removing the ridge, cutting back both the corrugated metal and the decking, and then putting the ridge back on with vent spacers.