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DaveC426913
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Anyway, I made a thing! A Christmas present to myself.
When we moved here in June, this was just a janky roof on two janky posts hanging off the shed-proper. Now it's a whole 'nother room - lighted, heated, weather-proofed, air-circulated, child-proofed and usable all year round, and all my tools are protected from drifting snow. (The window panels are actually leftover sliding doors repurposed, that can be removed in the summer for air circ.)
See the door-and-a-half? And it has a little trap door at bench-height on the far left where I can stick 2x4x8 lumber out and can still cut it on my chop saw.
This is the fist time in my life I've had an actual workshed where I can do stuff and not have to pack all my tools away when I'm done (which was a real buzz-kill).
(P.S. the pic makes it look like cedar, but it's actually all PT. I tried to do this on a budget.)
I rate this project 10/10. (Defined as: I started with ten fingers and still have ten left!)
Took me 2-3 weeks. Cost maybe $500, mostly in lumber, and much of that was just to shim up all the janky lines.
Next summer: dedicated power, so I don't have to power everything by extension cables from the house.
Now in my fifties, I'm discovering that my spirit animal is wood. And my talisman is a chopsaw.
When we moved here in June, this was just a janky roof on two janky posts hanging off the shed-proper. Now it's a whole 'nother room - lighted, heated, weather-proofed, air-circulated, child-proofed and usable all year round, and all my tools are protected from drifting snow. (The window panels are actually leftover sliding doors repurposed, that can be removed in the summer for air circ.)
See the door-and-a-half? And it has a little trap door at bench-height on the far left where I can stick 2x4x8 lumber out and can still cut it on my chop saw.
This is the fist time in my life I've had an actual workshed where I can do stuff and not have to pack all my tools away when I'm done (which was a real buzz-kill).
(P.S. the pic makes it look like cedar, but it's actually all PT. I tried to do this on a budget.)
I rate this project 10/10. (Defined as: I started with ten fingers and still have ten left!)
Took me 2-3 weeks. Cost maybe $500, mostly in lumber, and much of that was just to shim up all the janky lines.
Next summer: dedicated power, so I don't have to power everything by extension cables from the house.
Now in my fifties, I'm discovering that my spirit animal is wood. And my talisman is a chopsaw.
