hey everyone sam here welcome back to our channel and welcome back to our tennessee property this is
the next stage of the building of my workshop as you can see behind me we've got a skeleton
frame standing up there in today's video we're going to do a little bit of diagonal bracing but
ultimately the goal is to sheath and deck out the roof and cover it with our underlayment let's go
first thing i'm going to do is use some of my 2x4 studs i have and attach them on the inside
of the workshop on the studs at diagonals i'm going to use those to help stiffen everything
up and keep this thing from shaking and shimmying especially as we're up on the roof working it's
also going to help everything to stay square and true and just be a lot safer overall i
will eventually take these boards down and reuse them but for now consider them a safety measure
guys getting dizzy yet feel like a dance partner out here
let me introduce you to the camera real quick it's a great height difference you might have
to squat down one introduced to you guys to the helper for today the i'm wanting to say
apprentice i don't know right tag team partner tag team there we go tag team this is angela's brother
austin and he is out here today to help me do all the grunt work because she decided to
stay home she didn't want to drive over for the cold no fun work of ruth so she volunteered you
i'm okay with it all right here's my game plan for how we're gonna see this roof uh disclaimer
it's gonna be very low key this is not gonna be how you're supposed to do a house so just
remember this is a workshed storage shed workshop whatever structure it's not a house so i'm gonna
do is i'm gonna throw on the ladder with my two and three eight inch long nails and my passlet gun
austin's gonna toss me the osb sheet up there i'm gonna be starting from the top
down it's a little bit backwards to what you normally do with the roof but it's a small roof
and i think that this is going to be the best way for me to progress i obviously haven't
cut the overhangs on my rafters i don't even know where they're going to line up just yet
and really the name of the game is this one day this one afternoon's worth of work to get the
roof on and give us a covering for the rain that's coming tomorrow so that's the whole reason this
is not normal in any circumstance other than just what we're doing today and how i do stuff here we
go are we doing it this way up or okay by the way but i can slide it once you get up on the rafters
i see it up over my head and we're gonna start here at the top corner
all right hang on a second sometimes they're
marked all right cool you got the right side up okay
i can rotate it a little if you need it started yeah
first nail
so
we have our eight full sheets of osb up there and nailed down
perfectly good and tight and straight wonderful and great right
so next thing to do is take our four foot squares and fill in these uh holes our
little skylights in the workshop they're not gonna stay there let's go ahead and patch those up now
here we go all done roof is decked out
i don't know how i'm getting down here but i don't know maybe austin will catch me
so
well given that that is probably the most difficult way to trim your rafters
and in a perfect world you would have done all that before you ever sees it with your osb
all in all wasn't too bad now the reason i did all this is one i'm not conventional and two because i
was not exactly sure where the osb shielding was going to end up on the rafters whenever
it got laid down and set up and everything was right in addition to that i was taking advantage
of having help that day to get the sheathing up there so that's my reasonings for why i'm doing
the things like i am obviously as you get to see this and you have the benefit of what for me is
hindsight you will see better ways to do this you'll see more efficient workflows you'll see
how what i'm doing is terrible or how what i'm doing is pretty cool all depends on what's going
on at the time but for me here in reality out here by myself doing stuff this worked out pretty good
it wasn't terrible overall honestly the worst part was moving the ladder around and fighting
the mud but what are you gonna do about that i'm not that tall and mud is mud before i jump over
and do the exact same work to the other end of the building i want to go ahead and change gears
change my scenery for a moment and go ahead and attach my facial board my faces are going to be
two by four framing members regular one and a half inch thick studs they're going to lay
horizontally and tie all the rafters together as well as give me an additional nailer for the osb
so
there we have it one half of the building is done our rafters have been trimmed our fascia
board has been attached and our osb sheathing and everything is permanently attached so looks great
i was a little worried about doing a two by four fascia i was concerned that it was going to look
very very small and weird and okay given if this is a house that would be weird but for a storage
shed slash workshop building i think that turned out okay the reason i did 2x4 is because honestly
i forgot to order the two by sixes for this part of the building i have purchased everything in
bulk ordered it all at once and had it delivered real time about a month ago now and in that month
the prices of lumber and building materials has skyrocketed that one two by six which was x price
is now six dollars more per board i uh i'm not made of money in case you don't know i'm not made
of money out here so what i decided to do was to go with two by fours those two by fours were still
a dollar or two more expensive than the two by sixes would have been
so you know live and learn i guess either way the two by fours look fine
it's not super tiny weird little fascia board it actually looks okay all things considered
so i'm happy with it but i just wanted to take a second to tell you guys why because
i'm sure a lot of you are wondering and a lot of you are probably saying you know 2x4 is
not good and such well an ideal world no but in the reality we live in that looks pretty good
i have my rafters and facial boards all done the roof line looks great
i think i have enough daylight left to go ahead and put down the underlayment on top of the roof
for that i'm using a synthetic underlayment and i'm going to be using the stinger system
cap staples this is a cool little hand hammer stapler that you use to put down underlayment with
you click the trigger it progresses a little washer you smack the devil out of it and it
staples it through the washer and through your material holding everything in place
this is the same stapler we used when we did our new roof on our home it worked great for that i
hope it will work great today i honestly haven't used it in the year since doing the roof so
hopefully this tool is still good as far as the underlayment we are using it is griprite
name brand shingle layman 15 gre it is a synthetic roofing underlayment while it does have a shingled
pattern it is not designed to be your final roofing this is only an underlayment that you then
put your final roof on top of all right daylight's burning let's get up there and start working
well today was one of those days where i had to just stop
whenever i needed to stop versus getting to get a chunk done and pushing through until it was done
i wanted to be able to get the entire workshop covered with underlayment but i didn't get there
i got two out of five rows or courses done so i guess i'm two-fifths of the way done at least
but it was good progress getting the fascia board done getting all the rafters cut both to length at
the angles plus the bottom cut for preparation of building the soffits out and everything so
i mean all in all it's pretty good day's work i mean given i've been out here for about three
and a half to four hours most that's not too bad for just one person moving the ladder around and
going back and forth back and forth so so today was definitely one of those times where i had to
be smart and decide to be happy with what i got done even though it wasn't as much as i wanted to
it was still a good accomplishment well hopefully you enjoyed coming along
to see at least some progress for today see how i did all that work and learned something
or was otherwise entertained if you guys got any questions or comments leave them for me down below
otherwise take care and i'll see you next time on the homestead let's hit the road
i did not know that was up i forgot wow that scared me i thought i was a goner
okay now let's really pack up our stuff camera included bye
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