I took the week of August 1st off in order to build a new shed in the yard. The old shed had a leaking roof and was, generally, falling apart. In order to build the new one, I had to clear the old one out of the way. The new one was due to arrive on Wednesday, Aug 3, so I got started removing the old one after work on Friday, July 29, by removing the unused floodlights that were connected to the walnut tree. This led to removing the unused floodlights on the shed, as well.
The next day, I launched straight in on clearing out the shed and starting the demo, paying particular attention to the mung shelf from the back wall.
The shed was a rain-shelter for mice, so the whole of it stank of mouse urine. I expected that the shelf was soaked in this urine, so I propped it up in the sunlight to get it cooking for a couple of days. I had a plan for this board once I realized the size of it.
The electrical was the most interesting part of the demo at this stage. I had the circuit breaker off, of course, and tested everything twice before touching the wires. I knew I was up against a challenge, though. The shed is fed through a receptacle at the house, then it runs underground to the shed where it has another receptacle on the outside of the shed. The wire then ran through the wall and into the shed to a switch bank, which fed to tree lights, outside shed lights, and inside shed lights, as well as another receptacle for power in the shed. I removed the electrical starting at the walnut tree, and chased it back to this outdoor receptacle. I knew that I was going to need power here for the SawzAll, but when I found the ground just hanging oyut doing nothing, I was in trouble. A quick text to two of my brother-in-laws (my sister’s husband and my wife’s brother) and I had the answer: “Don’t sweat it. Tape it up and put it back together.” And so I did. And it was good.
At this point things started moving right along. The goal for Day 1 was to have the shed down.
Calin pointed out that I might want to get out from under the roof before I removed much more of it. Good call, Boy. Thanks!
I gave that one stud a whack, expecting the whole thing to fall down, but the stud fell straight down onto the ground, and kept the whole thing up! What the what?!?!?!? Jenny came in and suggested that I attack that front corner (where the outside receptacle is). This was another good suggestion, as this is what finally brought it down. In so doing, however, the reassembled receptacle took a hit and stopped working. I’ve not opened it up again since, but the receptacle at the house still works.
In all, mission accomplished for Day 1. The weather was with me.
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