Rebuilding my shack

[tallyho8]

It's been another busy day. I couldn't wait to see how it looked with a porch. I got most of the porch up using the rest of my cypress boards for floorboards and some old cypress 4x6s for posts. I had to buy new treated 4x4s for cross braces and a new treated 4x6 for the top beam. I don't like the look of "yellow wood" but I have some stain to put on it later so it will match the cypress.

It's getting too hot for me to keep up these 12 hour days. I am going to slow down a little now.

 

[Defective]

Looks good enough to live in.

 

[tallyho8]

July 4th, I took the day off to work on my shack. I guess everyone celebrates in their own way, huh?

I put the rest of the steel panels on the roof. I used the surviving panels off my old shack and put most of them on the back side of the roof and had to get a few more new panels to finish off the front.

The porch is 8 x 16', just big enough to hold my swing and a rocking chair. I don't have a rocker anymore, have to look for a good one somewhere, sorta country looking. Anyone have any ideas?

OK Eddie, the porch is up so next time you pass through stop and we'll try it out.

Defective: I may be living in it if I get out of line again.

Since I do all my work by myself it takes a while to complete a project like this. This one room with a half-bath is about 1/5 the amount of work of a small subdivision home so I figure it will take me about 4 months to complete the project. Lots of things left to do: Insulation, sheetrock, install a/c, install plumbing and home-made septic tank, electrical, flooring, interior painting, steps, and after I finish the building I start on the patio, pond with fountain, and garden. I have to go up to my land in the Ozarks to get a couple tons of rocks for the landscaping.

 

[EddieWalker]

OK Eddie, the porch is up so next time you pass through stop and we'll try it out.

I'm looking forward to it!!!!!!!!

The porch turned out great and really makes a nice, inviting statement.

Eddie

 

[weldingisfun]

The porch is 8 x 16', just big enough to hold my swing and a rocking chair. I don't have a rocker anymore, have to look for a good one somewhere, sorta country looking. Anyone have any ideas?

How about this one? Available at Cracker Barrel resturants. They come painted white or natural oak.

 

[firemanpat2910]

you cant call that a shack any more, It needs to be the bunk house, the tool box, the guest house, the dog house, the fridge, ..... anything but a shack. Or maybe the building formerly known as the shack...

 

[scott_vt]

Mornin Tally,
Hey that came out great ! Gotta question for you. On top of your foundation blocks, are those aluminum cooking trays ? I heard you mention the termite problem down there, so Im assuming that those are a deterent?

Thanks for all the pics, nice job !

 

[tallyho8]

weldingisfun: Thanks for the info. I have a Cracker Barrel about 30 miles away. I will check them out as soon as I get a chance.

Scott_vt: Those are galvanized steel termite shields sold at Home Depot. All pier buildings down here have them to protect them from termites coming up through the concrete blocks. Even if your concrete blocks are filled with concrete, termites can usually find small cracks to work their way through and if they can't come through them they build their tunnels on the outsides of the concrete blocks and work their way up. Then they would tunnel over my creosoted beams and treated floor joists and sole plate and eat their way through the studs to the rafters until they ran out of wood.
By the way Scott, have you ever heard any more from Thingy? I miss his posts.

firemanpat2910: Shack is the short name we use to refer to it now because we don't want to make any derogatory statements but when people used to ask us what it was, we used to jokingly call it our wetback shack, where our Mexicans were going to live when we got too old to care for our horses anymore. Of course, this was before Katrina when Mexican labor was rare and cheap in this area. Now that our latin population has hugely increased and their labor rates have more than doubled, this is no longer even a dream.

EddieWalker: When you come by be sure to bring a sample of Rox's olive oil with you.

 

[EddieWalker]

EddieWalker: When you come by be sure to bring a sample of Rox's olive oil with you.

Do you honestly think there will be any left over?

Beside, I'm really hoping you can make it here in the fall. I know I'd love to meet you and maybe go over some horse hotel ideas with you. We're hoping for a good turnout and spending lots of time just sitting around visiting and trying different foods. I know you must have a couple dozen secret recipes we'd all love to try out!!!!

Eddie

 

[scott_vt]

By the way Scott, have you ever heard any more from Thingy? I miss his posts.

Mornin Tally,
No I havent heard from him, another poster on TBN made a post that he was banned from this site. Im not sure if thats true or not, possibly one of the moderators would know for sure ! In any event I miss his posts also !