Great progress! It always feels good when the little ones write about awesome stuff that you do :)
Great progress! It always feels good when the little ones write about awesome stuff that you do :)
tuna55 wrote: One safety item that should be there for anyone ever doing roof sheets that I learned the hard way (but not the VERY hard way) to share, not just for you, but for any other reading. If a sheet begins to drop, fall, or the wind catches it, let it go! NOW! Stop trying to hold on, it will absolutely take you with it. It can catch plenty of wind to pull you off the roof, but it won't slow your fall at all.
A friend of mine has a scar in a very, um, sensitive place for not heeding this warning. In his case, he was hanging storm windows, and fell off the ladder. Saved the storm window, but had a nasty altercation with a wooden stake in the ground...
The first day of spring break. Had to grocery shop, go to the library, get everyone lunch, "hey Daddy! Come see what I built out of Lego!". Now I remember why I didn't start this project when I had kids at home all day. I did get a bit over half of the wall above the door on. Lots of up and down the ladder. I was hoping to get sheeting on this on Wednesday but we have a high wind warning for then.
Tuesday is a doctors appointment. Wednesday my wife wants me to bring the tribe in to work to eat lunch with her. Friday I have to drive to Dallas (four hours each way, with all of the kids) to pick up kid #3 who is at camp there this week. In better news, GM is supposed to be building my Corvette this week, so I should start working my tail off.
Yay daylight savings! There was light after dinner so I went out and finished the front wall. It looks more and more like a building.
My tale of caution, everyone else is doing it. 
When you get your Tyvek on the walls be careful about being up on that ladder leaned against it, that stuff is slick, leaning/stretching/reaching from the top of the ladder is a bad idea. I rode a 14' extension ladder to the ground in sssllllooooowwwwww motion because I was reaching out too far stapling Tyvek to the wall instead of getting down and moving the ladder. Me over reaching on 2nd rung from the top of the ladder against a slick Tyvek covered wall made for a bad afternoon. Scared me more than anything, luckily I walked away with scrapes and bruises. With all the materials and equipment on the ground and that whole 9.8 m/s/s from that height it should have been much worse.
Hurricane ties, end plates, and plywood tetris. This side is done and needs a roof. I need to get the ties and end plates done on the other side and get the four sheets of plywood on the front hung. I could do that tomorrow if it weren't for the 25mph winds they're predicting. This weekend. No racing this weekend. Only roof this weekend.
Lee - In the picture you can see that the tyvek is pulled down so I have a non-tyvek place to put the ladder. It's slippery and I don't wish to fall. Falling ladders suck. Got that t-shirt too.
It looks more and more like a grosh every time I click on this thread! 
I can't wait to see the roof on.
Spent the morning finishing the blocking and the end plates and hurricane ties until I ran out of them. Took the three remaining kids to lunch with my wife and returned to a phone call from Mrs. Deuce that kid #2 who is at camp is about to be kicked out for deciding rules are for squares. That motivated me to do some demolition.
Tonight I'm going to go pick up plywood and tomorrow I'll get the front done and maybe start putting some on the roof if I can't help myself. I need to get stuff on the roof so I can move things from the back to the front so I can tear down the trusses that I've denuded so I can build more walls so I can put more roof on.
So that's done.
I was going to start putting the roof sheeting on this weekend, but I have some extra hours and there's nothing else going on.......
Three sheets of roof on the far side, two on the front. I took this picture before dinner but I went back out and put roofing felt on all of it just in case. I need to pick up kid #2 from Dallas tomorrow, so pretty much no work. I think I can get the rest of possible roof on in one solid day. Maybe Saturday if it doesn't rain, Sunday if it does.
Yesterday was interesting. On the way to pick up kid #2 I got a call to hurry because he was no longer welcome. I have three wonderful kids, and him. That's for another thread. Right after that I get an email from Callaway which I'm still trying to deal with, but it's not good.
I finally get home and more demolition sounds like its the perfect cure for my day. Except...... At the end of Thursday the cord on the 25 year old sawzall gave up the ghost and I need to cut and solder to get it working. Nothing like some nice gentle soldering when you're irate. In the end I'm pretty close to having enough torn down to build more, which is nice.
mazdeuce wrote:
Garage is moving along nicely.
Got any more pics of the beast with the green nose on the left?
In reply to nhmercracer:
The green nose belongs to Fergus. He's waiting for a nice warm dry space in the garage. Here is the build thread so far.
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/1968-ford-wagon-fergus/64300/page1/
This morning I woke up ready to work! Problem. Rain in the forecast. I wanted to put more roof on but Mrs. Deuce thought that a bad plan. She hates it when I fall off the roof. She took most of the kids to an early movie and left me with kid #2 and the words "If there's more roof on when I get home you're dead!". Right then.
I decided to tear the sheeting off the far end of the garage to empty out the random collection of junk wood from the previous owner. I did this on the front of the garage 13 years ago when I bought the place but lost motivation and never did get around to the back. Not terribly satisfying work. Take the mess from the garage and throw it on the ground. Get kid #2 and take the mess on the ground and make a nice pile in the yard. I didn't really change anything, just moved the mess around.
That's when it started raining off an on for the rest of the day. I pulled out the sawzall and cut enough of the old trusses away that I could build the next section of center wall. I got that done and then realized that I really needed to cut off one more section of truss. I did THAT, and knocked the wall over. Dammit. Put the wall back up and put a fresh cap on the concrete wall facing the house so now I'm ready to lay in the floor joists for part of the upstairs. Pretty excited about that. Another trip to pick up wood tomorrow and Monday is supposed to be dry so I can get the rest of the roof on that I can get on. There's only 12 more feet of old roof on the building and I'm itching to move stuff under the new roof and tear it off.
You're a juggernaut, man. Can't stop ya.
Growing up, we had what we called the "perpetual wood pile." The pile of scrap but usable lumber started in one place, but then got moved to the porch to make room for a project, then got moved off the upstairs porch to the downstairs porch do another project, then got moved out beside the spring house for another project, then to the barn, then to the.... you get the idea. My sister and I speculated later in life that the woodpile was simply something to keep us busy moving for a few hours.
Today it was supposed to rain any minute. The forecast said so, the radar showed it, rain was coming. By now you know I'm banned from the roof when it's raining, so I had to do other work. When it was all said and done, I managed to get up 8 more feet of wall on both outside walls and the center wall.
There is now significantly more new garage than old garage. I was also able to put in floor joists for the new guest room/sewing room/office/definitely not a man cave. This makes work quite a lot faster because I don't have to use the scaffolding of death on that side of the building any more.
Tomorrow the forecast looks good. Roof. I know I've said that before, but I mean it this time.
So, you're doing such an awesome job of the garage are you going to move the family into it when you're done then rebuild the house over a long weekend too? 
You can reclaim that sewing room square footage by simple leaving the cap off a gal of thinner once you move some car stuff into the garage. Won't be enough of a stink to bother a car guy but your wife will complain. Spend some time looking like you're trying to fix the problem until she gives up the idea.
Worked for me, my wife was told she could have her pottery wheels and kilns at my shop. She won't even step in the shop now and the pottery wheels are on our back porch.
In reply to Adrian_Thompson:
I built the second story on my house a decade ago in a similar fashion. I did have help with that, but just enough to get the shell up and the roof on. I'm still working on finishing the drywall.
There is a theory floating around the house that once I have a sink and electricity in the garage we can move the microwave and the fridge out there and I can tear the kitchen down to the studs and redo it. It's an interesting theory.
Work today. Roof. Not all of the roof, but a lot of the roof. It turns out that carrying sheets up the ladder and fighting with them and then nailing them down is tiring. I made it up to the peak on the shorter side (16 and 12 feet long depending) but only added one more row on the longer side (24 and 20 feet) Tomorrow I'll finish that side and get tar paper down.
My hammer also decided that it didn't want to be a hammer any more. Stupid hammer.
Even though I'm done with the roof for the day because I don't want to fall off, there is other work to be done, so I'll go do that.
In reply to mazdeuce:
I still can't believe you're doing all of this working without a framing nailer...
I don't own an impact gun either.
Started to frame the first dormer. The plan in my head is to have two of them to give more headroom upstairs. I'm not sure if this is how I want to do it. I need to drink some coffee and stare at it for a while.
What is the pitch on your main roof trusses?
Shed dormers are nice because, when you can make he pitch work.. you don't lose headroom down under the eaves.
The main roof is 5/12. I could do a 3/12 shed dormer and get what I need for a lot less work, but 3/12 is kind of pushing it with asphalt shingles (or so I read) and I don't particularly like shed dormers visually. Dumb reason, but I'll be looking at the building for the next 15 years or so and I don't want to be pissed off every time I do.
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