Jim finished attaching all the screws from underneath the top track through the top plate on the back side of the shed today, so the steel framing is all finished!
Then we went down to the pavilion and loaded up the first plywood sheathing!
It's so nice that Jim cleared a path around to the back of the shed; he was able to drive right back to where we needed to work.
I did all the marking of screw locations on the plywood and then helped Jim move it over; then he stood it up in place...
Making sure it is level...
Starting to fasten...
Moving the next piece into place...
Right now, Jim is just putting enough screws to hold it all in place; he'll go back later and fill in. We certainly learned a lot about building with steel from the house. There are two types of screws to use here - if Jim pre-drills a hole through the wood, he uses wingless screws. But if he wants to go through both the sheathing and the steel at once, he uses winged screws. But those require lots of force to get them through, especially since Jim used 5/8" plywood for this project.
The next piece went up into place in the middle of the right side wall, just so that the structure has more stability.
Fastening it in place...
Once he had enough screws to hold it, he put the bucket on the Bobcat and brought it around back to start filling in the screws. You can see he really has to exert a lot of force to get these screws in!
It's so exciting to see sheathing on the outside now!
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