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---- that, this is an HMT garage... :l

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Jd,


are your veggies done yet?? my roast with potatoes and carrots was bangin.

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Sheathing is low ply plywood unsanded. Cheap ---- used for structural building. IE-for subflloors and roofing. I'd spring for sheathing on the floor. Moisture will collect under the floor no matter what. OSB's fine for the walls and roof, but not for flooring. I've seen OSB completely fail in 2 years when used as a sub floor. To think we ripped up 3k worth of hardwood flooring and 300 worth of sheathing to change it. :l

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I have $60 in it so far, with a pair of new gloves. Still not caring right now.


My expertise is limited to turbocharged german sports cars. I could spend money on this, but that would take away from the 951 and thats just not acceptable. Any technical talk after this post is deemed irrelevant, since this really isnt anything more than a "im bored lets ---- some ---- up" sort of project. Its in the backyard, and I have the only "house" on the mountain. It isnt going to decrease the the property value one cent.

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Hey, it's not my shed. Just offering a bit of advice if you want it to last. I'm not telling you how to build it to code to satisfy your local building office. Just pointing out a couple things you could change that will make it last longer. When I do something I have to figure my cost and time.

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Oh im not pissed or anything. Just pointing out why I build $200k+ sports cars and you build $200K+ houses. Apples and oranges.

Seriously though, if I have to slap another $35 worth of plywood down in 2 years, I wont be the least bit disheartened.

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Like he pointed out himself, Hitchhikkr wasn't hostile when making that point. All 2X4, tar paper, shingles, half the nails, window, door, etc, are free/donated. Really just buying plywood and misc stuff, and the current projected budget shouldn't break $100.

I know it's just a shed, but I want to learn the ropes a little better for when I'm a homeowner, so I can do simple straightforward ---- myself. The way I look at it is the walls are framed but not erected yet, if it costs $30 to more to the total package to rip up the current floor and replace it with what you're talking about I'm down. So, sheathing is the only key term i need to know?

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Yeah, I gotcha. FWIW sheathing isn't much more than 1/2" OSB, like 12 vs. 8 or somthing like that. If that tickles your fancy. Hell if cheap is your goal go find a stack of warped and damaged plywood and get a manager to give you a price on it. They throw away damaged stuff sometimes so it might be free or 20c on the dollar. I've gotten free sheet rock several times when buying some since there were damaged pieces there and they'd rather see me haul them away then pay their employees to throw it in the dumpster and then pay to have the dumpster emptied.

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Which is the basis upon which all of this is relative.