Week 8, we started off with heading down over the hill to check the concrete foundation out. It cured nicely and was ready for us to pull the form boards off of.
The stakes were buried very deep, so it took some finagling to get them out of the ground. Once they were removed, we were able to get at the screws holding the scabs in place. Those were taken apart, and then finally the actual form boards were uncovered and pulled away, leaving only the concrete slab.
Now that the project with the slab, down over the hill was complete, we were all able to focus on building the sheds more. In the picture above, I am working on putting the rough frame for the door together. We used engineered lumber for the door headers, with king and jack studs being nominal dimension lumber. The engineered lumber is structurally more sound, and also more true (less twists, cups, crowns, etc.), giving us the ability to have a single header over such a wide span.
Our finished door frame and window frames (2).
Picture of our single wall up, which we felt very happy with accomplishing... until we discovered the disparity below...
In the picture above, you can see the gap between the sole plate and the subfloor. The sole plate and subfloor should be flush together. The gap insinuated that the wall was out of square.
After doing some 'square checking', we determined that the wall was, in fact, out of square. We had to remove the sheathing (which locks the wall in place), so that we could shift it back to it's correct dimensions. I am pulling nails out in the picture above. It was hard to backtrack, but after we did and resided the wall with the sheathing, it was interesting to see just how much the squareness of the wall affected the flushing of the sole plate with the subfloor!
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