I have managed to damage 3 of the 5 fingers on my left hand so far. Since I'm more than three fifths of the way through the project I think I should be able to finish. It's been going pretty well. I framed up the roof and then slapped the roof on. Then after a fitful night's sleep, I realized the front (and back) edge just wasn't straight enough so I pulled off the roof boards and adjusted the middle planks to make the front and back straight. Now I've really nailed the roofing boards in place and even put the lower drip edge on. Now I just need two more days to felt and shingle the roof and it'll be pretty much done. The super heavy duty tarps that will make up the walls have already been ordered and then I'll need to set some kind of flooring so the wood isn't sitting directly on the ground.
Here's how it looks so far. Actually this picture is from when the front and back edge were a bit bowed due to those middle two front to back pieces being a bit too long. I've also installed some flashing on the back posts and will also put it on the front posts too. I'm also going to coat the outside edges of those posts in redwood with some grooves cut in with my router to mimic the redwood siding of the house. During the winter you won't see the fancy fake siding, but in the summer I plan to have the tarps off to let the wood season better.More pictures of the progress in the gallery. Also in the gallery you'll see my miserable failure at trying to make a huge level to make sure my roof was level. I thought I was genius for coming up with this, but it just never read level and took forever to settle down (to not level) anyway. Oh well, an interesting experiment.
