With the foundation set, we can put up the walls. This building will act as a permanent hunting blind and be a place for us to stay waiting for wild game to approach. When hunting game its best to get out to your hunting spot hours before the deer or whatever you are hunting is known to come out. So a nice comfy place to rest will be nice, instead of sitting up in a tree or a blind no bigger than a two person tent. Having such a building will be quite the luxury for hunting from.
It is twelve feet by twelve feet wide and has a small porch on the front. The ceiling is nine feet high and has two windows and one door.
First things first was to bring over the four walls, we carried them together a hundred of so feet.. Was not the funnest part of the job...lol Then we attached all four walls to each other and secured to the foundation.
The openings for the door and windows are already built into the frame, so we just need to place them and they are good to go.
Roofing was done using metal sheeting and using planks to screw them into.
Taking a few steps back we can see this building sitting on the retaining wall.
The paneling goes smoothly and was quite nice to have a roof covering us from the hot sun.
Each sheet lays on top of each other and will be sealed with caulk later.
One more roofing panel and its complete.
Next is putting up the door, it went quite smoothly.
Time for a lunch break, my partner brought out some food for me to eat.. thanks honey.
I even got to eat some home made marsh mellows.. yummy.
The windows go in after the door, they are double paned and should be nice and quiet to operate when we see some game outside.
Putting the siding up, we had eight foot panels, so there was a foot or so gap at the bottom we need to deal with later.
Now the siding is all going up, covering the gaps between the windows.
We use a "nibbler" to cut through the sheet metal.
Soon it will be time to start filling up gaps. We do not want rain, or insects to get into the building.
Using expanding foam and silicone caulk on the smaller gaps we fill in everything.
Not the most pretty work but should hold up.
We went through two cans of spray foam and four tubes of caulk. Still need more.
There was a very big gap on one side we filled in with expanding foam. The other side we opted to cut a piece of wood so it wont be so hard to fill in.
So what's next?
We will add insulation to the walls, and add paneling on the inside of the building. We will also build a ceiling and add insulation there as well. Once that is done we can build the floor inside. Not sure how we are going to do that yet. Probably no carpet as it will get really dirty. So I am thinking some kind of pour like people do in garages. We also want to set up a spot light outside shining down on the field to obscure the view of the shooting house to the feet, and to give us better visibility to take the shot.
So still lots to do, but looking forward to setting up in there and waiting for the wild game to walk by. Maybe I will get lucky.
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