greenhouse (eaves trimming and wall insulation removal)

after a nice breakfast at the sugar pine and a few errands in mariposa we got to work on the greenhouse.  staal was mostly hanging out on the roof again today.  he trimmed back the overhang on the south side and removed a couple of the ceiling joists to see if they can be reused as fascia board.

long awaited biscuit

offerings to dog

i pulled staples and removed the wall insulation. 

i don't know why it makes me think of some kind of foil-wrapped pastry---i definitely wouldn't want to eat it.

i worked my way around taking out the insulation but couldn't get to the northeast corner because we still had the drywall from the walls piled there---and i couldn't move it until i loaded the pile of ceiling drywall onto the truck.  so i took a break from insulation removal and started heaving pieces of drywall.

staal helped me get the insulation out of the way.

we hadn't quite finished getting the drywall down around the windows so staal cut a nice clean break with the sawzall and i finished tearing down the drywall and got the last of the insulation out.

here's how we left things today...

looking northeast

looking southeast

tomorrow morning we're taking a field trip to the dump.

tears and sunshine

i sit in the sun,
and cry,
it feels good,
the warmth of the sun,
and the crying,
it's soothing,
both,
the tears wash something away,
i don't know what,
i am not unhappy

greenhouse (drywall removal)

we've spent the last few days resting (kind of).  i had a lot of things to catch up on in the gardens. staal did some work trimming and cleaning up the overhang on the north side of the greenhouse and has been working on the '34---making sure it's road-worthy for a trip to the dump to get rid of the roof debris, and the lumber yard so we can get the rest of the materials we need for getting the poly panels up.

i got the chicken tractor cleaned out and fresh straw put in for the winter, started some seeds (jack helped) so we'll have a steady supply of greens through the winter, did some weeding and some planting, harvested the last of the tepary bean pods and got the beds cleaned up for their next crop (greens or lettuce), and cleaned up my potting bench area along the south side of the greenhouse so it will be ready for staal to trim back the overhang before we start putting the poly panels on the roof.

cat tracks through seed flat---i left for 20 seconds to get my water bottle

perennial greens---kosmic kale and tree collards

tepary bean  beds

did some actual resting out on the tire swing.

today we pulled the drywall off the walls in the greenhouse.  it was a bit dusty and some of it was a little stubborn but it mostly came off without much trouble.  

found some pretty hideous wallpaper under the hideous paint

the walls are insulated with fiberglass batts---they're short sections held in with staples and won't be any trouble to remove. 

tomorrow i think i'll try and get the drywall fragments (ceiling and walls) onto the truck and work on getting the insulation removed.

greenhouse (ceiling removal)

things are progressing quite nicely.  we got the ceiling drywall down today---and made a pretty good mess in the process.

a cup of kickass from the wake-up fairy---i needed it

thus fortified i went out and got some gardening done and then we set to work getting the drywall down.

 
after getting things started from the inside, staal used the sledge hammer to knock the rest in from above.

i love the view

we had a little oops with one of the windows---turns out they don't handle large pieces of drywall falling into them very well.

smashy smashy

unfortunately the nails that were holding the drywall up didn't come out with it when staal knocked it down so we had to pull them.  most of them came out without too much trouble.

after we got the drywall cleaned out, glass picked up, and the nails pulled we took a little break to eat and then went out to get an idea of where and how many purlins (supports that run the length of the roof) we're going to need to support the roof panels.  we're keeping in mind the potential snowload possibility and are opting for three heavy purlins and two lighter ones (on each side of the roof). 

"wiggle board" made to support corrugated panels

the wiggle board will be fixed to the purlins and then the panels are screwed onto the wiggle board.

polycarbonate panels

we took a panel up to the roof so we could get an idea of purlin spacing and what materials we need to get.

staal and i don't usually work together on projects.  mostly i do the garden stuff and he does the building and repair stuff---we get quite a lot done around here this way and we both get to work on things we enjoy most.  i'm having a lot of fun working with staal and i'm happy we could team up on this project---it's kind of a special one for me.  it's also a good way for me to learn more about building---the man does good work.  and it's just fun hanging out with my sweetheart, getting dirty and building something beautiful together. 
thank you for joining me, love.

greenhouse (roof tear-off)

we've been planning on turning the "master bedroom" into a greenhouse for a long time---best use for it in my opinion since it borders the north side of the kitchen garden and has a rather large tree root lifting the concrete slab into a little berm which runs through the center of the room.  it's a big job and wasn't one we wanted to start in the heat of the summer but with the weather cooling now it seemed like a good time to get started.
on tuesday, staal and i went to merced and picked up some clear corrugated polycarbonate panels for the new roof.  yesterday we started tearing off the existing roof---asphalt shingles and plywood decking.  we got all the shingles off and about half of the plywood. 

before we quit last night we experimented a little with how we were going to get the insulation out.  the attic was pretty well insulated---fiberglass batts with several inches of blown-in insulation on top of that. 

here's how we left things last night...

this morning staal cut a clean edge along the west end and then we pulled off the remaining plywood.

then we got serious about removing insulation.

tomorrow we start dropping the ceiling drywall.