Workshop Clean Up- Second Floor

As I mentioned back here, we've been slowly working on straightening up the the barn that Mike uses as a workshop.

Mike spent a weekend cleaning up the second floor, where we had been storing a bunch of stuff.  Some of it was left by the previous owners... stuff like extra fence pickets (coming in handy!), old doors (used the hardware!), and we have plans to replace the screens of the barn with some of the old windows that are up here.

BEFORE

BEFORE

There are more "Before" photos in the barn overview here.

BEFORE: Boards & Tar paper

One of the issues in the barn was that the third floor "attic" space was just a series of boards laid across the beams, and spaced about a foot apart.
In the gaps, they had laid down tar paper.  You can see some of the tar paper hanging in the right side of the above photo.
It was getting to be a bit of a mess.

In Progress:
Removing Boards & Tar Paper

Mike pulled down all the boards and the tar paper.


We still used the beams for some storage of long boards, and some insulation.  But for the most part, we left it wide open.


It's hard to tell from the photos, but it really does feels so much bigger in there now...
especially since we've consolidated most of the stuff we decided to hold onto (for future repairs, etc) to one side, and the other side is just about empty!

Definitely not the most glamorous project, but certainly a good job that needed to get done!

Next step- renting a dumpster to get rid of the debris we removed from up here.