Sunday, October 28, 2007

The shed

Yesterday Stan, with the help of a few friends and the kids, rebuilt the shed. Before it had a wood and pvc (on the roof) frame and was covered with plastic. It looked something like a greenhouse. With the high winds we have here, we had to replace the plastic 3 times in the last year. He decided it was time to replace the plastic with something more solid.

They started at 9am and by 5pm they had a complete shed with metal siding and shingled roof. That should hold up to the winds this winter :) The friends that came started calling Stan a master scrounger--we paid $25 for all the materials that we bought (some of the plywood). All the rest of the materials he found used for free (roofing nails, felt, shingles, plywood, 2x4's, metal siding...). It came from freecycle, burn piles, and a friend of ours with a roofing company. The roof is in 4 different colors of shingles (they were leftovers) but it's solid. It's amazing what you can find when you start looking around.

Stephen and Shane used this for a project for the Family Life merit badge. It fit right in at the right time.

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