Category: Projects

After 2 coats of paint for both the trim and siding and with the addition of an air vent…

We have completed the east wall!
Now we can put the fence back up and finish the remaining walls.

Let’s take a quick look inside to see what’s going on in there.

Inside view of the south wall vents.
Similar to the house vents that run along the underside of the eaves.

Purchased these battery powered motion activated LED lights.
Two on the east side…

Two on the west side.
These lights light up the area nicely at night.

Climb up the ladder and you can see the awesome loft storage area on the east end.
This area will be used to store all our patio furniture cushions!
The west end will have a loft area as well.

After several days for rain mixed in with thunder and lighting, it’s finally time to get back to our project.

Let the painting begin!

Our focus now is the east wall and getting the fence put back up into place.

So while the focus is the east wall I begin to paint the south wall, while the east wall’s first coat dries.

We aren’t painting lower then pictured to give the boards time to dry out more from all the rain.

West wall is progressing along.

The vent hole is cut out, the solar light is installed (and works beautifully!) and the first coat of paint is brushed on. I’m enjoying this painting, it’s going a lot faster then the trim.

The east wall is looking fantastic!
Tomorrow we will apply the second coat of  paint on everything (siding and trim) and install the vent.

We got the siding finished!

North wall and west wall complete!

Final measurements…

It’s all complete!
Now it’s time for paint.

Last night we worked on getting the north wall completely sided, we didn’t get it finished. So our goal for today is to finish it and get the east wall finished as well.

West wall work from last night.

On the west wall we were able to use full boards with only about a foot needing to be trimmed off the ends. Since they were all the same length it went so much faster!

Well, here we are again, working on our backyard project. Need to have several more nice days in order to finish the outside. The inside can been done during the rainy days of fall.

Today we are painting all the trim and then finishing the siding.

Looking east toward the west wall.
When Gino is finished with painting the trim we will finish this wall of siding.

We got this wall finished!
The clouds have begun to move in again and it looks like rain.

The siding (in the above photo) is not the finally color. We were able to get the exact color of  paint from the house for trim and siding. We need  to finish the north and east wall siding. Gino is working on finishing the south wall siding above the door.

South wall under eave vents.

North wall under eave vents.

We are finished for the day. We got both west and south walls complete (the walls you can see in the photo) and started siding the north wall.

Gino’s been trying to get outside each night to do more work on the shed. But this week we’ve had a few rainy days so work has been delayed due to weather. I hope we can get this done before the real rainy season begins!

I try to help where I can. I tried hammering in the nails to the concrete board and I just don’t have enough force to do it. So he does the hammering all by himself.

Working on the west end wall. He’s gotten more finished along the front and so we have moved to the west side to begin the siding there. No extra cuts, let’s just get the siding up!

In order for the siding to be under warranty we HAD to add the plastic sheets (can bee seen in the above photo).

The sheet sticks/staples to the wall and overlaps the lower board. The sheet is placed in line with the seams, if the seam should happen to separate, the plastic sheet protects against water damage by channeling the water down and away from the wall. Supposedly.

Flashing sheets for our siding.

Front view looking North. He got the window trimmed out with flashing across the top.
I told Gino it looks more like a fancy playhouse then a shed!

Tonight after work Gino went out to begin working on the siding on the shed.

He started with the front and got quite a bit done before finishing up for the evening.

The siding is going up!

Looking Northeast.

To cut the siding, Gino got this giant paper-cutter type machine, called a siding shear.
Super easy to use, Isabel and I can do it! Makes the cement siding cut like butter!

Finished for the night he got all the non-measured cuts done on the front.