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For the last several weeks we’ve been demolishing our old 8’x8’ shed and selling, giving away, donating or tossing most of the stuff in it. We’ll be putting what’s left into this 7.5’x3.5’ shed.
Building the new shed has been an adventure. Today we discovered that we had been sent two of one of the right-side door frame rails and none for the left side. The left frame piece is pre-drilled for the hinges.
I could probably figure out where to drill the mounting holes for the hinges, but dammit, I paid for all the right pieces so I want the right pieces.
Two of the door panels were also missing some pre-drilled holes, but that was an easy fix.
I’ve called the vendor and he said he’d get back to me. We haven’t had good luck with folks “getting back to us” recently so we’ll see.
Needless to say, my review of this shed won’t be particularly glowing.
Why are we putting ourselves through this? The old shed’s roof had a coat of rust. It was still solid and didn’t leak (much), and worked well to shelter my lawnmower, a bunch of gardening tools and some automotive tools I’ll never use again.
However, our homeowner’s insurance company is trying to get out of California and refused to re-up our policy unless we demo’d the shed.
C’est la vie.
The new shed will hold the lawnmower, the gardening tools and some other stuff we don’t want to get rid of and that won’t comfortably fit into the garage.
But it’s been taking up a lot of my writing time.
So, no wingeing about politics this week.
See you next week.
Call your Congresscritters! Keep Calling!
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