New shop front

[Tom King]

All the puppies have gone, so I finally could get back to work.  I hung the other door today.   We'll go visit my Mom tomorrow, so hopefully the next day I can trim them out.

They both work amazingly well-completely smooth and silent, especially since I felt like I was risking my life opening them before.

I think I'm going to set the Alum-A-Pole scaffolding to work on the gable end off of.  That way I can leave the plank up above the doors so I can open them to get in and out.

 

[Mark J]

I just flipped back to the before picture.  That's quite an upgrade!

[Tom King]

I pulled a line across the tops of the two trim boards under the hinges, to set the top trim boards by.

I let them run long, and cut them to length in place with a made in England Japanese pull saw.

[Tom King]

Pulled a line under the bottoms of the trim boards under the hinges, and cut the other vertical pieces to length measuring to the line.  Once those were in place, the bottom boards were marked to be cut to length.  All ends were painted before being installed.

Wedges held the bottom trim boards to meet the vertical boards correctly.

 

[Tom King]

The doors were close enough to being square that 45 degree angles worked fine.  The end of the diagonal was cut, a screw put in the right place at the top to hold the other end while I marked it.  I cut a short angled end piece to set the holding screw by.

The other end marked, and cut to fit.

 

[Tom King]

The short diagonal pieces were marked a similar way, letting it run full length and marking where it intersects the full length diagonal.

Got rained out, but getting close.  I might set the scaffolding tomorrow.

No paper has been wasted drawing plans.

 

[Tom King]

I can lock the doors again.

 

[BillyJack]

Lookin good..

[Tom King]

Finished the caulking and painting on that level, and set one Alum-A-Pole.  Such jobs are Really slow by myself.

 

[wtnhighlander]

You lost me at 'Aluma-pole'. What is that for?

[Mark J]

28 minutes ago, wtnhighlander said:

You lost me at 'Aluma-pole'. What is that for?

I think it's going to be scaffolding.  

[Tom King]

A very fancy pump jack scaffolding system.  I have to redo the whole gable end above the doors. 

I have a 20" wide 32' long walk board I'm going to use here, if I can move it by myself.  It weighs 176 pounds but I have it hanging low on a wall so I can take down one end at the time, and move it with the tractor.  That one is about like standing on a sidewalk.  

The best thing about such a pump jack system is that you can always work at a comfortable height right in front of you, and no scaffolding legs between you and the wall to have to work around.

https://www.alumapole.com/scaffoldmainmob.html

[Tpt life]

I have tens of thousands of hours on that style pole jack from my siding days. They are a pain to set up at extended height, but they are some of the nicest to work off I have ever used. 

[Tom King]

The stage is set.  The shed where I had the planks hanging started out life as a horse trailer shed, then I added the first shop onto one side of it, and another shed later off the other side of the shop.  I park my truck in this shed now.

I must be getting old.  I'm tired after setting this up by myself.

That's a generator on the stand back in the shed.  I have it, and the big pressure washer on stands so I can back the truck up to them and slide them into the truck without any lifting involved.  The stands are light enough that I can take them where I run the machines to take them out of the truck to run.

The upper plank serves as a workbench, and a safety handrail.  It's a 12"x24' one man plank that weighs something less than 75 pounds.  The plank to stand on is 20"x32' and will support 2 men. 

The long one is plenty heavy enough, and chained to the jacks, so I can work on the corner boards around on the side walls off of it too.  That's why I haven't put the corner boards back up yet on the building.  I need to reset the ones on the side walls and didn't want to do it off of a ladder.

 

[Tom King]

After lunch, I scrounged up enough scraps of lumber to build the little roof over the doors out of, and have plenty of standing seam roofing leftover from a job several years ago.  I won't have to spend the first dollar on it.

  I also cut the pattern rafter.  The rafters will be all sorts of different widths, but are only 28-1/2" long, so it won't matter a bit.  Rafter length was determined by the shortest pieces of roofing metal I have to use.

It will be fairly easy to extend the roof out with the scaffolding set.  I'm thinking about adding 2 sheets of tin wide on the main roof.  Also, I scrounged up some old crooked treated 4x's to make any brackets out of straightened pieces out of them.

The little roof is going to go above where the bad piece of siding is.  The rest of it above that is really not too bad.  I may just paint it, and let it go, especially since it's going to be much better protected after extending the roof.

[Tom King]

I have the little rafters tacked in place with one screw.  I'll tie some of them onto the roof framing of the building, but needed to get them all set to a line.  For some odd reason, there is a treated band on the inside that was right at a good height to be able to fasten the tops of the rafters in place like this, and still leave room under it to sister some long boards that can tie back into the main roof framing.

That layer of OSB T111 was all soaking wet, like a wet sponge.  I was able to just pull it right off with my hands.  The framing is all okay though, either treated Pine or White Oak.

This would have been almost impossible off a ladder, but was easy off this scaffolding.

I was able to scrounge up enough scrap boards to find enough 2x8's to trim over the doors with like the vertical ones under the hinges.  That put the roof line pretty even with where the bottoms of the main rafters intersect the side walls, so I think it will look okay.

The front of the building has about a 2" bow out at that level.  I just let the rafters run long, and will cut them in place to a straight line on their ends once I get all that framing done.

Pam had decided that we should put some living quarters in the barn, so she gutted the tackroom.  I spent the morning insulating the ceiling, which is a job I hate, but it's done now.  I did this job this afternoon under thick clouds, so it wasn't so bad.

 

[Tom King]

Finished the framing this morning.  The ones sitting on top of the Oak verticals ended up being too tall down to where the soffit will fit.  I'm just going to use a straightedge to mark them, and cut them with a jigsaw.  I cut them all to length by a line.  You can see the few thick ones.

 

[Tom King]

Sheathed the roof, and have tar paper on it.  I hope to get the metal on it tomorrow before heavy rain comes Friday.  Waiting on picture transfer to computer.

[Tom King]

It's covered with standing seam metal after this morning.  I haven't folded the edge yet, but it will shed water like it is.  Sun is out and it's pretty warm up there, so I'll wait for another day to finish the edge.

It's really nice to have all my tools in these waterproof toolboxes, organized in categories.  I haven't done a standing seam roof in several years, but all I had to do was pull two toolboxes, and I was ready to go.

Some of my scrap pieces of roofing were 2" less than I would have liked, but I was still able to use them.  I was only able to fold up one inch against the wall on those pieces, but the way I'm finishing the wall above will take care of that.

I have zero dollars in this roof.  Completely built from scrap leftovers.

 

[Tom King]

Finished the edge of the little roof this morning.  It offers 28" of overhang over the doors-what I could get out of leftover scraps of this roofing.

 

[Chestnut]

Is the steel in picture 1 just not finished. Picture 2 doesn't show the uneven edge that picture 1 does.

I know nothing about how standing seam roofing works. Some day i hope to have it installed on our house as I think it looks nice and I like the fact that you can easily attach solar panels to it without drilling through the roofing material.

[Tom King]

I did a How-To thread here several years ago of the way I do it.  I'll see if I can find it.  

First picture in this  thread shows it installed with no work at all on the lower edge.  First picture today shows the standing seams cut to final length, but no folding on the edge yet.

Second picture today shows the finished edge.  I didn't take pictures of every step, because I've already done that here before.

edited to add:  found it.   I hadn't done one since this one in May 2018.  Leftover pieces were from this job, or rather the one on the main house that this boathouse goes with.  All the tools were patiently waiting in their waterproof toolboxes for the next job.  I didn't have to look for anything.

 

 

[Chestnut]

Thanks for finding that Tom. I must have missed that original thread back in the day. The method seems sound and the results speak for them selves.

[Tom King]

The part I was looking forward to on this job the least was up next.  Fitting the trim board onto the top of the standing seams.  This isn't the standard way of doing this, but I didn't have the transition pieces normally used, and it's good enough for who it's for.  In the stash of old wood, I had a few 12' treated decking boards that have been drying for at least a decade. 

The plan was to fit them down onto the standing seams, and depend on caulking behind it to keep any driven water out.  It really wasn't that bad of a job, but by the time I cut them, and waited for primer and paint to dry, it was after lunch before I was able to install them.

The top of those boards will be a little proud of the T-111 thickness sitting on top of it.  I cut the top on a 30 degree angle, and left that circular saw set at the angle to cut the bottom of the T-111 with.

You might have to compare these pictures to previous ones to see that anything has been done.

Going around taking hoses off of hydrants for the first hard freeze tonight, one of the 42 year old hydrants broke the waterline coming into it when I twisted the hose connector, so I had to dig that up and fix it before quitting for the day.  All my PVC glue was old, but I reconstituted the most liquid gel of the lot with Acetone, and it's been holding for about an hour, so it should be good.

 

[Tom King]

I made a mistake by not getting all my materials here before my Mom moved back.  They let her go on short notice, and this was not on my mind.  Now, I'm back to not being able to be more than a couple of hundred yards from the house.  I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to run to Home Depot.  We had a good ten week break, and I thought it would be a bit longer.  I hate that this will have to sit like this for who knows how long, but that's just the way it goes.