This sucks!
I really need more stoarge at my house. My laundry rooms has turned into a giant storage room, and it's driving me nuts. I've transformed one of Brayden's closets into a giant game closet with built in shelves. I've stacked up clear storage buckets upon buckets in closets just to give me more room. So what are we doing to fix this? Add more storage of course.
We are having a shed built for us in the backyard. It will be 8x10 with two rows of shelves on the long wall, and a work bench on the short wall, and the other wall will be left open so if I decide to put a board up to hang stuff, I can. We are also fixing the overhang on the side of our garage to provide us more storage. Although this storage will have gravel for the ground, it will at least have a door that can be locked up. This is an excellent storage area for the kids bikes, toys, and what ever other stuff I find to put in there. It's a long overhang too.
The shed in the backyard will mostly hold all my stuff that is currently in tupperwares in my laundry room. Holiday items, old clothes, etc...
So, what sucks? Besides the cost of having this done, we thought we would save us some money and take the shingles off our garage before they start. We have to get new shingles because the overhang is attached to the garage and the only way to shingle it, without damaging the garage is to re-shingle it all. They said they would charge us $75/hr. to remove the old shingles. We were hoping we would only have a few layers on the garage, but there is seriously like 4. We're surprised it hasn't collapsed already with our lovely Utah snow.
Devin spent all day Saturday removing almost all the shingles from just one side of the garage by himself with little help from me and today he removed the rest of them with the help from my Step-dad (I know we aren't supposed to work on Sunday, but that was the only day we could get help). They will be here Tuesday and I can't wait to have it completed. Although the shed won't be done until May 7th, we will at least have this storage ready to use.
Devin and my step-dad Rick
Such a messy job, talk about being thankful for those who do this on a regular basis.
1 comment:
Nice mess of shingles!!! I have some Brazilian friends who had the greatest food storage ever in the smallest house you can imagine. She was so creative with the ways and places she found to stock things and hide things as storage. Under beds and in the walls and up high and down low...yet most descretely that you couldn't really see it unless you knew it was there. Your shed will provide a great place to keep up with storage no doubt.
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