Is my project old School?

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Pretty sure this project is old School……  If yuaaal ain’t interested in a construction thread just well ya know what to do

Anyway this 1933 one room schoolhouse has been owned by my boss for the last 15 years, In which time he has done absolutely zilch to it and it was exclusively occupied by rodents. Before his ownership somebody was living in it/doing a terrible job of turning it into a cabin. Driving by one day I noticed a fairly large aspen tree had fallen on the roof

 

so one day when I had nothing better to do I brought over his excavator. The place was slowly getting swallowed by  aspens. 




 

Truth be told the roof and chimney sustained some damage removing the rooftop tree but the place looked a lot better 

 

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That all happened in the fall of ‘22, about half the roofing tin was either really loose or not on the roof at all. Underneath the tin was the original wood shingles and there was virtually no interior water damage visible inside. I wanted to get a new roof on before winter 22-23 but between the project I had going

and an early snow it never happened

 

Anyway summer was about gone again and it was high time to at least slap some new tin on, so off with the old tin

And off with the old shingles. I seriously underestimated the amount of rodent and bat crap that can accumulate over the years. It was disgusting and frankly I’m amazed we didn’t get sick. 
 

 

 

We cleaned out as much rat crap and insulation as possible from out of the attic while the roof was open. Didn’t relish the thought of that stuff raining down when the ceiling was removed. Structurally the framing was in great shape!

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Of course after months of no rain all it took was opening up a roof to scare up a shower. 

Sheeted the roof with 7/16 osb as is standard practice on new builds. I left the original soffit boards intact and trapped them under the new sheeting, something I now regret……..

And covered with synthetic roof underlayment. Stuff is amazing and would probably last at least a year without being covered 

 

So this side was fairly straight but the other eave (the north side) had quite a dip. In fact a level on the floor inside showed most of it needed to come up about 3”. So we looked at the foundation……..

Hmm fir posts and large rocks. Well actually medium size rocks. So I jacked up and supported the building on some temporary posts so we could excavate and pour concrete under the existing post areas. 
 

 

And ready for some mud. These sonotubes are about 3’ deep and sit on some very hard and rocky soil 

 

 

To be continued