Jack and I finished the siding up on the 4th (of 5) walls this morning, and stood the walls up. A double topheader ties the walls together at the top, and will eventually support the roof rafters.
It went together flawlessly, which might say more for the architect than it does for us, but here's some new photos.
Here's the 4th (of 5) walls, finished.
There are two ten-foot walls, this is the "inner" 10 foot wall, it ends 3.5 inches short of the back corner, against the other back wall that runs all the way to the corner. we've staged it here in preparation for raising it up.
Ok, this is the first wall up. its braced on the near edge with a piece of 2x6, as there are only 2 of us and we dont have quite enough hands to hold it all up while someone nails.
Jack, on a ladder behind the shed, is judging the fit of the two 10 foot walls coming together at the back corner.
Here, you can see the double top header attached to the "inner" back wall. the double top header runs the full 10 feet, overlapping the ends of the back wall and the short wall you see here, tying them together.
all 5 walls up, with double top headers applied. The front wall, where the double doors will go, is kinda hard to see in this photo. it has no siding on it yet, so it kinda blends into the studs at the back walls.
Next up is the roof. its a 5 point roof, having 3 hip joists, 4 center joists, and a stack of jack joists, all with various bevels and cuts. the joists all have a birdsbeak that sits on the double top header. We will be needing the jigsaw to cut some of that, and mine needs new blades so we stopped here for the day.
Well, we sorta stopped. We did do some measuring, and drew the cut lines on one of the hip runners. We also need a 6x6 piece of lumber from which we can cut the hub for the center of the roof.
Overall, a great day.
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