Finally starting an addition on our shed

[STx]

The roof is just plain old corrugated tin. Both the ridge roll, there's not an easy way to do a ridge vent. I did use cool deck to sheet the roof so it should help keep the temp down and the house is oriented do that prevailing summer winds will blow into one ridge vent and out the other so it should pull some draft. If it does end up super hot, I'll add an attic fan.

Moving along today, on my lunch break.

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm sure you will be fine. I'm always over thinking a lot of things as I see them.

 

[STx]

Where we ended up. I need more trim to get finished. It's a great feeling to have siding going up. Hopefully I can go get the trim tomorrow, if not I'll run the electrical for the A/C so I'll be all ready for those guys to come start it up when the siding is done. The weather is supposed to be really nice this week, high 60's to mid 70's everyday.

 

[EddieWalker]

Your siding is a perfect match!!! Did you get it from the same place? Once you are done, it's gonna like like it's always been there.

 

[STx]

It's just standard PBU panel. I got it from MBCI but others make it, Mueller, etc. I'm not sure who Morgan gets it from, MBCI didn't have an exact color match, that could be because the original building is about 20 years old and has sunfaded though. My wife picked a complimentary color, it matches well but we'll probably end up covering up all the old siding when we add the kitchen on the front of the original building. I'm happy with the way it's turning out, it requires precise cutting for the doors and windows but not having any seams looks nice and it's faster and cheaper than doing Hardie and painting it.

 

[STx]

Big day yesterday, got the AC ductwork finished up and everything connected and turned on.

I won't run it until we finish drying in the addition, I can close off the vents in there and have a 2nd return in the existing shed. It's still nice to have that done and now I can go ahead and fully close everything in.

Hoping to get all.the siding and roofing finished up today and tomorrow. The last front that blew through tore up some of the tarpaper on the roof so I'm going to have to redo some of that as well.

 

[STx]

Made some progress today, just have the upstairs door and window to get around on the front and the rest is straight cuts. We'll either finish it tomorrow, or get VERY close. Should have the roof on Monday or Tuesday.

 

[EddieWalker]

Forecast for Tyler and the surrounding area is for an inch of snow Monday night, Tuesday morning. Hope you don't get any of it there, and that you get it dried in before then!!!

 

[STx]

We're supposed to have cold rain Tuesday, I'm doing all I can to beat it.

 

[plowhog]

That siding looks really nice. Great progress you are making ... nice to see!

 

[STx]

Thanks, I'm really happy with the way it's coming out. It actually looks a lot better than I thought it would, running it horizontal makes it look far less commercial.

 

[STx]

My helper had to go coach his daughter's basketball practice at 4 so I only got him from about noon to 3:30. We made pretty good progress, just 6 panels left to finish and then the roof. He's going to try skipping out of work at noon tomorrow so we may just finish before the weather hits.

 

[STx]

My siding helper got sick last week so I'm.still 6 panels short of finishing. He's supposed to help this afternoon, we'll see if he makes it.

In the meantime, I'm doing electrical and plumbing. I had my wife layout plug locations and while I've never said "I wish there were fewer plugs in this room." I think she went a little overboard...lol. The pictures are the bedroom, I'm putting 4 outlets in each box and she has one about every 4 feet. One thing is certain, we'll never run out of outlet or not have one conveniently located.

 

[STx]

No luck on the siding today but, I did get some electrical and plumbing done. I need more pipe, wire and work boxes, it'll all be here Thursday. You'd think that as many times as I've wired a building I wouldn't be surprised by how much wire it takes anymore. I've used 550' so far and still need another 250' or so. I think from now on, I'm just going to plan on 1' of wire per square foot of space.

 

[EddieWalker]

It's always fun seeing all the innards of a house come together. I am curious why you are using PVC instead of PEX? PEX is faster, cheaper and with fewer joints, a lot more less likely to have a leak.

 

[JPRambo]

You are using 12/2 (not 14/2) for outlet circuit is that minimum in your area? Or personal preference.

 

[STx]

It's always fun seeing all the innards of a house come together. I am curious why you are using PVC instead of PEX? PEX is faster, cheaper and with fewer joints, a lot more less likely to have a leak.

I don't have the tools for PEX and I've never done it. I already know how to work with PVC and the existing plumbing is PVC so I'm just using what I know.

 

[STx]

You are using 12/2 (not 14/2) for outlet circuit is that minimum in your area? Or personal preference.

Personal preference, I'm using 20A breakers, there's not a lot of room.left in the panel and I want to minimize my circuits. There isn't any permitting or inspection required here so I could run 18/2 if I wanted to...

 

[EddieWalker]

I don't have the tools for PEX and I've never done it. I already know how to work with PVC and the existing plumbing is PVC so I'm just using what I know.

I understand. I resisting PEX when it first came out and stuck with copper for everything. But PEX has been around long enough now to have proven itself, so I started making the conversion. Like everything, there is a learning curve, but it's really a quick and easy product to learn. I like PVC too, but will only use it for drain lines now. As far as I know, none of it has ever failed on me, so that's not the issue. It's just so much easier to install!!!

 

[STx]

I understand. I resisting PEX when it first came out and stuck with copper for everything. But PEX has been around long enough now to have proven itself, so I started making the conversion. Like everything, there is a learning curve, but it's really a quick and easy product to learn. I like PVC too, but will only use it for drain lines now. As far as I know, none of it has ever failed on me, so that's not the issue. It's just so much easier to install!!!

It's not so much that I'm resistant to it as it is that this is such a small amount of plumbing that it isn't worth the tool investment. I love the manifold system that's used with PEX. When we build the "real" house, I'll probably buy the tools and do PEX, here I'm only running 100' of pipe, hot and cold combined.