Homework
Has taken on a new meaning for me lately. It has transitioned from the scholastic to the “manual labor” front with two home improvement / repair projects recently.
First the “The Pheonix Shed”
During a “wind storm” one of the trees in my backyard split itself down the middle. It was an odd tree in that it had a single “main” trunk to to about 5 ft, and then split off in to three smaller trunks. One of the “trunks” fell down, and naturally it landed on the shed. The first couple of pictures show the damage.
In a weakened state the shed eventually fell over. Mainly due to the fact that it wasn’t on flat / level ground, as can be seen in the 4th photo. So the project was to build a foundation for it.
This was accomplished with some smal CMUs and backfill (bricks on sale from Lowe’s and bags of pebbles).
Once the foundation was done the Shed went back up without incident. I am actually rather impressed by the design of it, aka interchangability of all the pieces.
The second project is “Finishing the Garage”. We are still in the middle of it so no photos as of yet.
The project is to repair all the holes in the garage’s drywall, and paint it.
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