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It's something we've been needing to do for years, and we finally decided this weekend to get started on the "big" shed on our property. It's about 10' X 20', 6' tall on the left wall and 9' on the right. The end facing out house is open, and the entire thing is covered in corrugated tin. The previous owners built it out of 4 Creosote posts on the left and 4X4 Pressure Treated on the right. They used 4X8X12 boards for rafters.
It appears that the 4X4s and 4X8s were purchased new for the project and everything else was scrap/salvage wood.At some point, they poured a 3 to 4" thick slab inside (between the walls, not encompassing the posts).
The header on the left side had rotted and the roof was sagging on that side. The some of the salvaged 1X4's they used to span the rafters have also given up.
Saturday morning I removed the tin from the left wall, hoping to be able to reuse some of it. I wedged up the roof on that side and removed the nails that were holding the rafters to the 4 posts. (The other rafters were just hanging there.)
Once the nails were out, I finished raising the roof off the walls and examined the posts. One was rotten at the ground. Another had settled and was too short now. One was set in concrete, and one is wedged so tightly between the slab and a sweetgum tree's roots that it won't come out. All these posts angled inward at about a 5 degree angle so their tops were above the concrete, but their bottoms were beside it. :fing20:
I removed the rotten one and the short one. I used the 4X4 for the front and the 4X6 for the other and placed them on the slab. We've got to go get some Tapcon anchors and my neighbor's hammerdrill to secure them with brackets to the slab.
I built up the tops of the two remaining posts and constructed a 20' 4X4 header out of 2X4s to go on top of the posts toi support the roof. Once I was ready, we removed the temporary supports and carefully lowered the roof onto the new header.
The result of the new posts was two vertical ones and two angled, so I had to build out a bit on the new posts before I added the new lateral strips for attaching the tin to the walls. I finished that at dusk tonight. Hopefully tomorrow, I can get some pics and start hanging the tin.
When I am done with the left wall, the rear wall has to be removed. It has on center support and they ran the corrugated tin horizontally instead of vertically (as they had on the left wall). The right wall was done correctly.:fing20:
It appears that the 4X4s and 4X8s were purchased new for the project and everything else was scrap/salvage wood.At some point, they poured a 3 to 4" thick slab inside (between the walls, not encompassing the posts).
The header on the left side had rotted and the roof was sagging on that side. The some of the salvaged 1X4's they used to span the rafters have also given up.
Saturday morning I removed the tin from the left wall, hoping to be able to reuse some of it. I wedged up the roof on that side and removed the nails that were holding the rafters to the 4 posts. (The other rafters were just hanging there.)
Once the nails were out, I finished raising the roof off the walls and examined the posts. One was rotten at the ground. Another had settled and was too short now. One was set in concrete, and one is wedged so tightly between the slab and a sweetgum tree's roots that it won't come out. All these posts angled inward at about a 5 degree angle so their tops were above the concrete, but their bottoms were beside it. :fing20:
I removed the rotten one and the short one. I used the 4X4 for the front and the 4X6 for the other and placed them on the slab. We've got to go get some Tapcon anchors and my neighbor's hammerdrill to secure them with brackets to the slab.
I built up the tops of the two remaining posts and constructed a 20' 4X4 header out of 2X4s to go on top of the posts toi support the roof. Once I was ready, we removed the temporary supports and carefully lowered the roof onto the new header.
The result of the new posts was two vertical ones and two angled, so I had to build out a bit on the new posts before I added the new lateral strips for attaching the tin to the walls. I finished that at dusk tonight. Hopefully tomorrow, I can get some pics and start hanging the tin.
When I am done with the left wall, the rear wall has to be removed. It has on center support and they ran the corrugated tin horizontally instead of vertically (as they had on the left wall). The right wall was done correctly.:fing20: