Enlarge Duracell shelter
Since working behind his house, Matt had only partially covered Duracell when he cut away the deck to create the new roof. As a new phase of exterior work begins, involving many hours of sanding, then painting, it becomes necessary to completely isolate the 60-footer from the outside by building a shelter covering it from transom to bow. In this way, he avoids dispersing harmful dust into the surrounding environment and forest, and risks suffering the effects of rain or high humidity, as well as the assaults of outside impurities on his paintwork.
Wooden farmhouses
The extension of the shelter is based on the plan already used for the first part. Wooden trusses are built on tooling created by tracing the first trusses. Wooden wedges give thickness between two planks, mounted on a square post at the foot. The two assembled half-trusses are then fixed to metal shoes, mounted in concrete blocks cast deep into the ground.
Apart from a few cracks in the wood, the construction is straightforward. Assembly is a little less so, with Matt and his mother playing the balancing act. Maybe not an example of safety in the workplace, but the result is there.
