4 years ago, me and my wife bought a new house. I have been in love with it every day since. So much in fact that without a doubt, I have been professing that love out loud at least every other day since I moved in. I love every part of it. Every part but the shed that is.
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. And the Good left town.
The shed was already ripe for demolition when we bought the house. The paint was peeling to the point where half of it was just bare unpainted wood and rotten to boot. It looked like any woman with non-waterproof mascara in a deluge. It was so rotten in fact, that this year, boards decided they weren't going to stand for it anymore dropped of my shed on their own account. Calling this sorry excuse for a shed ugly as sin would've been an insult to Sin ...
So, after lots of back and forth between finally renovating or demolishing and replacing it this year, we opted for renovation. A new shed was going to be way more expensive than renovation, for which I only had to take off the outer boards, re-using the frame and tack on fresh new black horizontal cladding. Or so I thought.
Now I am become death, the destroyer of sheds.
Demolition is the best part of any project and I had been knocking off the old boards from the inside out, feeling all Hulk smash, wielding my Demolition Iron like Thor swings around Mjölnir. I was like Miley Cyrus, coming in like a wrecking ball! The shed would have none of it though, because at one point I knocked out half the frame on one side. Turns out the frame itself was also rotten to the core. Obviously this was totally not part of the plan. I was going to need to rebuild the frame.
Luckily, I had already gotten the go ahead from the Mrs. to buy a cross-cut saw for shortening the new boards when the time came. So I had the tools necessary to do this. Now all I needed was the skills. The DIY projects I had done up to this points were always 'small scale'. And even though I have been stepping up my game, I had not done anything as major as building a shed frame. There's a first time for everything I guess and certainly no time like the present. I was going to have to go Tim "The Toolman" Taylor on this project. Hobby Bob. Bob the Builder. DIYves !
It was time to Power Up.
To be continued in Home Improvement - Shed Renovation pt. 2 - The Demolition soon. I'll be sharing the tools used to take down this ugly SoaB, tell how I went about it and show photo's of the take-down results.
Full STEEM ahead my fellow Steemians
Interested to see how your project goes. I've got a couple of sheds that need a bit of TLC, hope to get some ideas.
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be sure to ask anything you want to know. I've ran into things I'd prefered to have know in advance. 😂
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