Snags in the building process
I'd
be the first one to tell you that our homemade
storage building has growing pains.
Although I've read a lot of books and websites, this is the first time
I've ever put screw to 2x4, and it shows.
We probably could have
the whole thing done by now if we knew what we were doing, but we've
still got two walls to raise and the roof to put on before we even
start on the interior. Still, I can feel the building process
picking up momentum as we repeat steps we've figured out in the past.
Monday, Mark let me try
my hand at framing a wall. Those square bits that come in the
screw boxes make it much easier for a novice like me to drive screws
without stripping the heads.
I nearly finished the
half wall section I was working on before I ran out of lumber.
Unfortunately, we had to call it quits for the day since we got a flat
driving the golf cart through ice to the cars where
the rest of the 2x4s are stored. Mark's teaching me that things
happen on a farm --- you just have to roll with it and allow plenty of
extra time to get projects done!
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| This post is part of our Building a Storage Building from Scratch
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Part 3: Walls and scavenging lumber
Part 5: The roof
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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But maybe all I need is some practice... And the fact that this is the first time you've screwed together 2x4s makes me feel more confident. If you can do it I can do it right?
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