The Woodshop

 

There has not been anything new done on the studio. Dan and I had a busy summer raising the roof and fixing a building to use as a woodshop. I debated on wether or not to put the woodshop on my blog. I thought that if I were building furniture for the studio and doing other woodworking projects that the woodshop was actually fairly important.

 

The first thing I had to do was clean the building out. We had pens built to house our orpahaned lambs. It had to be shoveled out by hand because there wasn’t a door large  enough for a loader. Luckily it has a cement floor.

 

The next thing we did was took the tin, plywood and rafters off so we could raise the height of the back wall. The back was only three feet tall and being a fairly tall person I wanted to raise it high enough that I wasn’t hitting my head on stuff.

 

Here is the building with no roof and everything cleared out of the inside. We even removed some of the plywood on the west side and removed the east window. Three of the windows were replaced.

While we were working on it we noticed that the southwest corner of the building had sunk a little. So we jacked the corner of the building up. This was were the door was eventually going to go. We cut and knocked out the old footing, built forms and poured some concrete.Here you can see the southwest corner. I have the hole and a slab of cement outside where the new door went. On the west side you can see where the old door was.

 

Now we have the wall extension, we added four feet in height to the back wall. Then the rafters went up. We decided instead of putting the plywood back on the roof we would put boards on to make it a little stronger.

In this picture we have the walls, windows, and door all framed up ready and waiting for the next step.

 

This was interesting working with the plywood. We removed the rotten or broken plywood and replaced it. We used the plywood that was on the roof and filled in all of the places that needed plywood. We actually ended up having enough to cover the whole building. We weren’t too worried how it looked with the patcwork of plywood since it will eventually get covered with tin. This was where I felt we were actually acomplishing something. It’s amazing what a difference a fresh coat of paint makes.Dan and I put a vapor barrier on and then the tin.

 

Windows trim and roof are on and the door is installed. At this point I had most of my tools moved in I was extremely excited to have this for my woodshop.I’ll admit it’s not completely finished but it is definately functional. I have been in the woodshop almost everyday since it’s been completed working on stuff including my art cart. Hopefully soon I will be done with the art cart and ready to post pics of it. Until then thanks for stopping by.