A number of folks have asked why my Irish cottage design included a knee wall at both ends. The answer is simple... most of the pictures of Irish cottages I saw sported a knee wall... so the answer is "for the look." Today Aaron and I finished (99%) the west knee wall. We definitely got better at the process as we went along. What helped tremendously was the auto-feeding screw gun that I bought at Home Depot. A tape of sheet rock screws feeds through the head and makes screwing the HardiPlank both fast and secure. The company claims that you can hang a 4' X 8' sheet of sheet rock in 60 seconds. The gun does work surprisingly well... here's a picture of the west wall inside and out:
Inside of wall:
Outside. We won't completely finish screwing the cap down until the building is stuccoed.
Here's a picture of the back door we re-hung yesterday taken from the inside of the house:
We'll move the boys' kennel over to the house soon and they will be the first to move into our Irish cottage (left-to-right: Mosby, Baxter, Boone).
Outside. We won't completely finish screwing the cap down until the building is stuccoed.
Here's a picture of the back door we re-hung yesterday taken from the inside of the house:
We'll move the boys' kennel over to the house soon and they will be the first to move into our Irish cottage (left-to-right: Mosby, Baxter, Boone).
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