SPLICE THE SHED – Your thoughts on this?
Folks –
Der Boss has purchased one of those prefab sheds (Tuff Shed?, 8×12) for use as a telco equipment shed at a site in the desert. We are to assemble it at the shop on a trailer next week for transport.
At the site it is to be spliced to the existing shed. Take off one end and proceed from there – sez he.
My sheltered exsistence has never included the procedures for shed splicing, so I turn to the BreakTimers. Out there, someone must do this thing weekly and have all the tricks and cautions.
Sure could use them. This is a “remote site” and the nearest Home Depot is a far piece off when we discover that they don’t quite mate and we need a few parts.
How do you splice a shed? How do you splice the roof? I am thinking a lot of BSAM on the joint.
The ToolBear
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Sounds temporary, plus in the desert? no big deal, your boss is right.
In rain country, PNW, the shed's I've spliced were mostly roof overlap considerations. Take along a few cheap Harbor Freight tarps, a few rolls of roll roofing, and roofing cement _ all set!
That's about all there is to it.
Think the existing shed had the roof replaced with an EDPM (?) membrane.
I am wondering about keeping as much of the end intact as possible to act as a sheer panel and cutting a wide doorway thru both of them when butted together.
If they are the same pattern, a splice of EDPM or whatever the roofing used over the splice should hold. ?? As you point out - lots of cement. Slather it.
While not the NorthWet (which is just lovely this time of year - which is why I am down in SoCal wearing shorts and not in Anacortes with a fleece jacket and GoreTex parka) this area gets high winds, rain from time to time and snow. It was in the teens last week. Summer = 100s+The ToolBear
"Never met a man who couldn't teach me something." Anon.