Shed Finished!!!!

Scott and I spent Saturday the 9th finishing off the shed (or tried to anyway). It was about 85 degrees that day, so almost too warm, but we enjoyed the sunny weather. First we put down the metal wall tracks, making sure the corners were square and the door width was correct. Then we put down the "floor kit" that was included. Not the actual floor, as we expected; the "floor kit" was 20 black tiles that you screw down to your wood flooring platform (not included)... Then we started putting up the walls. They were vinyl sheets that slid together, but not easily! We ended up laying each wall down, lubing up each sheet with soapy water, then using all of our brute strength to slide them together. After we had the walls together, we put them up. At this point we realized that having one more person helping would have been nice, as it got a little breezy, and the walls started moving as we were putting together the gables! Scott did catch the shed one time and prevented a complete fall-apart.

After we got the walls and gable up, we began to put on the vinyl roof. Each side had 3 vinyl "shingled" tiles that snapped together, then you screw them down. Unfortunatly, we had 2 that would not snap together! after about 1 1/2 hours, we took those 2 off and laid them on the ground and I jumped on them until they went together, and then we screwed them together. It was more challenging lifting up two pieces to the roof, but we managed.

After putting on the roof, we had to put up 6 trusses on the inside:

Next we put together the doors, but unfortunatly it was too dark to see, so we had to put off hanging them until Sunday evening.

Sunday we put up the doors. The next step was only one page, and 5 lines of instruction. However, it involved screwing approximately 200 screws into the inner walls, roof tiles, gables, doors, etc. We ran out of day light again. So, this past Friday I took the day off and we got up early and with drills in hand finished the shed! We had to run to the store to get more screws, as they included an ENTIRE bag of screws that the instructions never had us use, but didn't send enough of two other types...Here is the finished product!

Lessons Learned:

1) When the package says 'floor kit included', that doesn't actually mean the flooring surface.

2) "Easy Assembly" is a relative term.

3) Recruit a couple people to help, as if we'd had 3-4, we may have finished in one day.

4) The instructions were poorly written, incomplete, not in order, and the inventory list is incorrect.

5) The best way to get to know everyone in town is to build a shed in your back yard. Especially if you are the corner lot with the "Welcome to University Park" sign in your yard and an alley along the back edge.

In other news, I have not yet posted pictures of our twins. Here is a picture of the old washer and dryer:

And here is one of the new dryer (the washer looks exactly the same, so I didn't post a picture).

Now we just need to take down wood paneling, re-drywall, paint, and put down new flooring, and the laundry room will look as good as the washer/dryer!

In other, other news, my friend Sara and I drove down to Louisiana, MO for an evening to hang out with our friend Jana. The trip involved supper, chatting, and some trips to antique malls. I bought a pie bird:

I also bought a set of 6 lovely glasses. I have discovered that my taste in decor is very different than Scott's. I like 70's retro, he does not. So I always ask myself, "Will Scott like this?" If these glasses had been red, orange, brown, green, or mustard yellow, I wouldn't have bought them, but I decided Scott could live with blue.