We had a relatively cool August which gave me false hope that September would be more fallish rather than summerish. So with the building pretty well protected I felt I could skive off until cooler temperatures arrive. A few days this month I've dabbled with the first leveling coat of plaster. The walls are pretty even and straight but there are some pits and pockmarks from the pre-roof days. There are also some bulges created when the T-brick forms would flare out at the bottom. We decided we were okay with a little undulation but I wanted to try to even things out some. I went to work at the bulges with a machete which was an easy enough job when the mud was still fairly fresh. After setting up for several months it's a different animal though. I spent one morning hacking away without much to show for it. My Dad took the opportunity to peruse his favorite store, Harbor Freight. He came back in the afternoon with grinder/buffer tool that worked beautifully. After getti...

So I managed to cajole my bride into spending her Labor day working on the shed. We got a lot done including installing the door frame, a screen window and some mud detail work. Passing cob balls through the window The threshold solidified quite nicely Capping the walls inside Installing the door frame. It took some shimming and pounding with the sledge hammer but we got the door frame in and squared up. I'll have to make a custom door. I'll see if I can get my hands on some old fence planks. Installing a screen window on the back wall.

This thresholds needs some TLC After the push to get the roof on, I took a couple of weeks off from the shed. It was nice knowing that as August turn unseasonably wet the it wasn't going to melt away. I got back to business last week. There are still lots of details to go before plastering. Small details you know like doors and windows. Before installing those features I had to do some work on the door and window thresholds. Since putting in the door threshold almost a year ago it's taken a beating from rain and foot traffic and the rough opening for windows were also about six inches too tall so I had to build those up. A small gap to fill We were out of dirt and our dirt supply yard was closed due to rain so I picked up some bags of fill dirt from Lowe's. After rounding up my tools, extension cords, water hoses, I found that the concrete mixer wouldn't start. Plugging it the would cause the breaker on the GFCI outlet to pop leading me to believe that the...