Unfortunately early summer monsoons caught me. Great slow rain all day, didn't even run across the yard because it soaked in very quickly, but a LOT of rain. Again, quite a pool accumulated on the slab. That's ok, though, because the squeegee did it's job beautifully. If nothing else, I can always open up an indoor pool with this thing. Apparently I sealed it very well under the bottom plate. Maybe too well. Might be time to consider some drain holes. That'll be fun.
Had to make an emergency run to Home Depot last night to get a giant tarp to cover this thing up. Got to HF first at about 5 minutes before closing, picked out my tarp, and reached in my pocket for my wallet. I'll give you three guesses what I left laying on the desk. So detour to Home Depot. Turns out, the price for the tarp at HD was actually a little less than I would have paid for two smaller ones at HF. I didn't think I had any reason to use exterior grade OSB or plywood on the trusses, and the stuff I did use was getting a soaking yesterday. I didn't want the glue joints in the trusses affected either (even though they also have 3 screws for every board that meets on a gusset.
Ennyhoo, bought a 30 x 50 tarp that I will likely NEVER use again to cover it up until I can get the roof on it. I never realized how fast rain would gather on a tarp. In minutes, it had what I thought was just a little water on it, that turned out to be thousands of pounds, and I nearly couldn't get the tarp out from under it.
I had to do my gibbon imitation and climb up in the trusses to pull paracord over the top to hoist up the tarp and pull it to the other side. Fortunately, I still had my walk-boards in the trusses, so at least I had that little safety margin. I had a good plan, but the rain wasn't cooperating. I was just going to toss paracord over the top and then pull the tarp over the whole thing. Besides getting soaked to the bone (through a Carhart jacket, mind you), wet paracord isn't very cooperative either. It was less than fun.
Now I gotta get good measurements to order my sheet metal today, which of course means I have to roll the tarp back on the ends so I can measure from top purlin to bottom purlin on all four corners. Ahhh, the life of shed building .....
Got a little sunshine this morning, but it's supposed to start raining again today. I'm hoping to get my entry door and both windows today, and start doing some closing in on this thing. I just don't want to put up any sheathing that might be getting wet continuously for a couple weeks, and EVERY day has rain forecast for the next three weeks. Looks like I may be stock-piling materials and maybe doing some planning for tool racks and pallet shelves, and general shop layout. Work benches to build, etc, lots of stuff to do now that I can deflect the rain even if on a temporary basis. There's always the electrical stuff that needs doing. The one part of the shed that's closest to my occupation SHOULD be the easiest part of the build except for the fact it's gonna take a lotta climbing. (AGAIN) I'll be 63 this month, and climbing ain't exactly my forte any more. Not afraid of it, but my sore and stiff joints get sorer and stiffer. Uncle Arthur (arthritis) has NOT been kind, and fighting a tarp in the rain is the LAST thing my stiff joints wanted to do.