Workshop - Days 5-11

The weather has been much more cooperative the last 2 weeks and I've made some good progress. I've taken a few more days off work, and I've spent a couple afternoons building the workshop and then did my real work in the evening after it got dark.

The roof was an interesting challenge. To keep the workshop looking similar to the house, the drawings call for a hip roof. In a hip roof the roof slopes in from all four sides, instead of having two vertical ends. When the framers were working on the addition, I recall the lead complaining about how much he hates hip roofs - now I understand why. I found a website that helps me plan out all the rafters, but it's still a lot of finicky angles and lengths that have to come together just right.

In any case, the structure of the roof is complete and I just have to get it sheathed. I'm hoping to be ready for the framing inspection within a week.

Building my Workshop

After all the work making the house pretty for everyone, I thought it was time to start a project for me. Then I remembered the list of things Christine wants built once I have a workshop, and realized that it's not really for me. ;-)

Really, I just want to have the outside done before the snow flies, and the year is disappearing fast. When Home Depot had a sale that let me get the wood for 10% off, it was too much to ignore.

My original plan was to take last week off work and see how much I could get done, but Mother Nature had other ideas. I did some good building on Monday and Tuesday, and then the weather turned to yucky to work outside. So I did some more on the weekend, and I'll take a few days off next week.