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Well I: cut to size, laminated, trimmed, routed in the bumper slot, installed the bumper and sealed the bottom of Lauren’s work table for the art room today. Only took three hours or so give or take less the time of my coughing fits. Dust and lung congestion don’t mix well. Yes, I was wearing a mask! BTW MDF is damn heavy, it is the neutron star of wood products. Just the tabletop ( 32″ x 78″ x 1.25″ )weighs 90 lbs.
Primed the West wall this morning.
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Installed my makeshift baffles today, and finally finished the last little section of the west wall siding.
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I managed to install the sliding door today dispite it being too wide. After routering the sheathing flush the opening was still about 3/16″ too narrow. A few well placed sledge hammer smacks nudged one of the 2x4s over just a tad. Once I routed off the excess sheathing again, I had just enough room to slide the door in. I flashed the opening, laid a bead of caulking around the perimeter and set the door in and nailed it in place.
I finished up with spray-foam insulation on the inside. I ran out of caulking so I couldn’t get anything else done today. I felt like relaxing anyway due to the dizzyness.
Today I finished up the regular courses of shingles. I haven’t figured out how I’m going to work the “ridge” vent yet so I kept the underlayment long and curled up against the wall barring a hurricane it should keep me dry enough until I finish it up. 
Finally a good stretch of weather. So I’m off to start finishing the roof. First off I had to cut out the holes for the roof windows. I started by jigsawing from underneath the width of the windows. Being upside down looking directly at the saw to follow my line I quickly discovered by saftey glasses were not up to the task as I almost immediately had dust in my eye. I quickly fashioned new protective head gear, a 2 gallon ziplock bag. 
Lauren really freaked out when she saw me in it. I didn’t understand why it bothered her so much. It wasn’t like the plastic was thin enough for me to inhale it. But I will say that it didn’t take long to get light headed.
Then from the top I used my router and cut the opening flush with the rafters. 
Now I was ready to start shingling. 
Once I got to the bottom of the window openings I could install the windows. After the windows were in I continued with the shingles until it got dark and ghouls started to appear.
Finished the gutter today. 
More rain is coming this week, so I can’t get anymore work done until I have a good stretch of dry weather to dry out my roof. I’ll also need a few dry days to install the roof windows and shingle the roof as they need to be done at the same time.
I tore off the remaining section of old gutter 
and started to install the rest of the new one. Had to go to Home Depot again – twice. I called it a day early and stopped by Steve and James’s after my second HD trip.
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It rained pretty good last night .78 inches overnight. Looks like more rain until Thursday, so who knows how long my underlayment is going to have to be my first defense.
Nothing like a deadline to get one motivated. With a guarantee of heavy rain coming late tonight, I have to get the roof weather tight. First off I primed the exposed underside edges of the roof sheating. 
While the primer dried I installed some stainless steel flashing to my “gutter” and did a little touch up caulking and foaming. Went to Home Depot and bought the rain gutter parts, and roof flashings.
To make things easier I also dry fitted and cut to size the siding for the front exterior wall. 
With those HardiPanels cut to size I then fastened the roof sheathing. Since my room is out of square I had to mark and trim the eave edge to a uniform exposure. Then trimmed the final piece to size. The room now has a roof. 
Next I primed the edges of the roof sheathing. While that was drying I tested out the gutter. It was a bit tight getting it in but fits fine once in place. It looks like I don’t have enough vertical space to hang the gutter over my “gutter” so it will just have to lay on it. I couldn’t continue with the gutter install because of the caulking that was still wet on the flashing, not to mention I didn’t think I’d have to remove the other section of old gutter.
Next I installed the drip edge for the eave. 
Then I layed down two layers of underlayment and then installed the drip edge for the rakes. I’m almost out of stainless steel staples, that means there are over 1200 staples have been used in this project. 
The final thing for the day as the sun set, 
was to position the one section of gutter so that it would drain into the patio. This left a small section on the other end with out a gutter so I slipped some flashing under the garage roof and the artroom drip edge to divert the rain to the gutter.
That’s it for today. 
This morning I primed the gutter, as I was cleaning off the debris in the gutter from the rain I managed to slice my finger. I didn’t even feel it, all of a sudden as Im sweeping the gutter with a brush I started to splatter blood all over. It looked 100% worse than it was. 
Then I finished nailing the rafters and managed to nail my finger pretty good in the process, this time it felt 900% worse than it looked. 
I also finished the vent screens and painted a top coat of paint on the gutter. 
Then I rough cut the roof panels and did a trial install. I had to do some final trimming up on the roof to compensate for my out of square side wall. 
I then removed the panels so I could get the second coat of paint on the gutter and to allow me to do some caulking next time and to install the gutter hangers before the final attachment of the roof panels. The forcast is for clear skies tonight so it had better be!
The art room is still waiting for all these little details to be finished before the roof goes up. Not having a roof but having finished the interior first, the last thing I wan’t to hear was thunder. Well that is exactly what I heard this morning around 2AM. I was already up reading as I couldn’t fall asleep. It wasn’t raining yet and the thunder wasn’t too close. I went to check the weather radar on the net and saw some sporatic rain, but no forecast for rain, let alone thunder. Then it did start to rain. It was light and I just had to hope it would stay that way as I had to go to bed and 2:30AM is no time to try to mickeymouse some tarp in the dark. I just took my chances.
Well it apparently did rain for more than just a bit, but not too heavy. Heavy enough to leave the ground wet in the mornining and to cause runoff. So I glad that the my “gutter” was at least sealed. No harm was done. 
Today I installed this heavy duty self stick flashing to the the bottom and side of the channel and caulked where it meets the HardiPlank on the garage wall.
Today I started to tackle the gutter channel. Because I couldn’t tie into the existing garage roof, I had to form a drainage channel.
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Here is the “channel” area. You can see the top of the garage wall, the edge of the drywall a gap and then the big beam.
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Here I’ve added a section of styrofoam insulation between the beam and the drywall and extending up flush to the beam brackets where a section of plywood continues up to flush the area up.
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Now I’ve added a piece of plywood covering the styrofoam and the other section of plywood and caulked where it meets the bottom.
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Here is the view down the gutter channel. Notice both “cracks” have been caulked.
It was a long day as I had to figure out just how I was going to go about constructing the gutter channel, go buy the plywood, HardiPlank and other supplies. Then I had to organize and move things around for what seemed like hours to clear off my table saw and auxiliary table of all my tools and supplies I’ve piled on over the last couple months so that I could actually roll out the table saw to cut down the HardiPlank and plywood to size. It was nice to be able to cut the HardiPlank on the table saw of course I changed to a cheap circular carbide blade before proceeding.
Today I made the rafters, I just dry fitted them as I’ll have to make some adjustments after some more elements are installed, but nothing more than a little trim here and there. Having the rafters up really made it seem like a room. Too bad I can’t just lay a giant piece of glass on top.
