Posted in Pictures, Workshop on Jul 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve spent the last two weekends working on my workshop. The focus has largely been the roof rafters, but I did put up some wall sheathing to help keep the structure stable.
After having worked on the rafters, I’m very glad that our house will not have standard rafters with a bird’s mouth. I spent several […]
Posted in Workshop on Jul 2nd, 2007 4 Comments »
I was up again over the weekend, continuing construction on my workshop. This installment was walls.
This is the lumber that’s left from my drop after I got the floor built. I stacked it on the deck and covered it with a tarp before I left last time.
I calculated that I needed 47 studs for my […]
Posted in Pictures, Workshop on Jun 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, but I have no experience building a structure bigger than a small cabinet. Given this lack of experience, it may seem foolhardy to build your own house but I’m taking it in steps.
One of these steps is to build a small workshop. In addition to giving me […]