Started rebuilding my shop!

Boondox · Dec 29, 2003

Besides being too small, my woodshop has suffered over the years from assaults by red squirrels (since deceased) and a couple of minor collisions with Clementine during the new tractor owner learning curve. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Thought the stone fireplace would have to be dismantled one stone at a time, but figured I'd wrap a chain around it and see if the tractor could loosen it up a bit.

There's now a six foot tall stone chimney on the ground next to the old shop! One gentle tug and it came down like that ****** statue! I've removed all wiring runs but one, stripped one wall entirely, and have the extention rough-framed. As luck would have it, the forecast has changed to include freezing rain changing to snow, but I have plenty of tarps.

I'll take some pics tomorrow. That extra room, decent wiring and insulation, and a steeply pitched metal roof that actually sheds snow will be a real treat! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Pete

Egon · Dec 29, 2003

Pete:

Removing the chimney sure went easy.
Back at our old place in Alberta I'd built a stone fireplace on the ground floor. we did some remodeling and it had to be replaced with an airtight. Three days later I finally finished getting it out.

Egon

Boondox · Dec 30, 2003

Rebuild pic 1

South end, showing the additional nine feet being framed in.

Boondox · Dec 30, 2003

Rebuilt pic 2

New roof with a decent pitch going up!

TWINKLE_TOES · Dec 30, 2003

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Pete, looking good post more pics as it comes along.
Al_Wa

ronjhall · Dec 30, 2003

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Pete
I don't see how you’re going to get Clementine into those nine feet? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

5030 · Dec 30, 2003

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Pete:

How about sending some of that snow down our way.

I am dying to try out my new Lucknow 78" blower. If we got some snow, I'd truck it up to Ron's and do his place too. Actually, Ron would probably like me to leave it there!!

Boondox · Dec 31, 2003

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Ron, that would be the next project. But there will be a slight delay while Tamara and I debate the relative merits of large and useful vs small and quaint barns! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Pete

wroughtn_harv · Dec 31, 2003

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( while Tamara and I debate the relative merits of large and useful vs small and quaint barns! )

Uh Oh!

That sounds like a no win conversation to me. Sorta kinda like deciding if voluptious is too much or just enough. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

ronjhall · Dec 31, 2003

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Pete
I’m sure you and Tamara will have Clementine’s best interest in mind no matter what your decision is.
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Junkman · Dec 31, 2003

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You can't fool me........ I know that is just another dog house for when you misbehave..... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Boondox · Dec 31, 2003

Progress on day 2

Got a LOT done today! Check it out. Pete

5030 · Jan 1, 2004

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Pete:

What are you going to do with the roof?

I was always under the impression that you can't lay shingles in cold weather because the shingle tabs won't adhere without warm temperature to activate the adhesive?

Boondox · Jan 1, 2004

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Daryl -- I'm going with metal roofing. The dull galvanized stuff that sheds snow like crazy. The older I get, the less I enjoy raking and shoveling rooflines. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

And I was going to keep the woodstove in the same corner, but in thinking it over it makes sense to center it on one end or the other, running the metalbestos pipe through the roof near the peak instead of further down where it'll catch snow.

Spent all of New Year's Day using a demo hammer to remove the remains of the old stone fireplace. Took eight hours, and fourteen FEL bucketloads of stone were removed! That thing was massive! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Pete

Egon · Jan 1, 2004

Re: Progress on day 2

Looking good Pete.

Worked all New years Day. Must have been quiet on New years eve.

Just as a note of interest; don't be standing under the roof edge when a deposit of snow decides to let go.

Egon

Gatorboy · Jan 1, 2004

This thread has changed Subject titles so many times, I thought I'd get it back on track.

5030 · Jan 1, 2004

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Pete:

I am a metal roof fan too.

When Amy and I put up our mare barn about 5 years ago, I put on a metal roof. I used galvanized Grand Rib 3 over osb sheathing with 100 pound felt in between.

Myself and a friend laid the roof in one day. We both got a terrible sunburn. The galvanized roof reflects sunlight in a bad way. Sort of like a solar oven and we were the meat that was cooking. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I ordered the galv., in exact lengths from the eaves to the ridge so we had no laps. I used neoprene washered drive screws. The hardest thing was cutting the end sheets. I used a regular circular saw with a plywood blade. For a fence I used a 14 foot 2x4 clamped to the sheet. I had to wear ear plugs and needless to say, the blade was scrap afterward.

I think I only changed batteries in my 18 volt DeWalt drill driver once. The hot tin kept the battery jumping. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Boondox · Jan 2, 2004

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( Looking good Pete.

Worked all New years Day. Must have been quiet on New years eve.

Just as a note of interest; don't be standing under the roof edge when a deposit of snow decides to let go.

Egon )

With all our chores, New Years is always quiet at the Burke house! But you're right; this year was particularly quiet! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

And I hear you about the snow dump off a metal roof! Ditto about parking near an ice dam when the weather warms. I parked next to the house last week when the weather warmed up as I didn't want to walk thru the rain. About an hour later I heard a horrible thud that shook the house and ran out to find...a twenty foot long ice dam had dropped from the house and missed our car by less than a foot! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Pete

Boondox · Jan 2, 2004

Dave -- I know that bugs some people, but in cases like this it also helps organize things chronologically. Pete

mrcaptainbob · Jan 2, 2004

Got a kick out of your 'quote', Gatorboy! 10 kinds of people!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif