step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). (include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.) — LATER!

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

i need two more rolls of insulation, because i bought what they had, which was R15 insulation, which comes in shorter rolls than the R13 insulation that i originally wanted… R15 insulation is better than R13, but because of the fact that it comes in shorter rolls, there wasn’t enough of it, so tomorrow i will buy more insulation… and a pair of shears to subdivide it, because the studs are not standard widths apart, and that’s about 85% of what is left, at this point… 😒

putting up insulation is REALLY hot work… 🥵

step six: add existing grow lights.

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). (include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.) — LATER!

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

the wall is complete! the door is complete, and it WORKS (thanks to my next-door neighbour, tracy, who does this sort of thing because he finds it relaxing)!! the only things left, at this point, are installing the insulation and the mylar (materials have been bought and delivered), and hanging the lights (all of which i can do myself). eventually, at some point, we’re going to have to re-do the electrical service to the shed, because it is currently an extension cord, buried under the turf of the back yard, and plugged into a GFI on the back deck — goddamn ron zeising! 🤬 — and i had to move the outlet in the shed, because a big FUCKING extension cord is NOT the correct way to wire an outbuilding! 😒

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

the framing for the wall is complete, and i have added a ceiling (which was easier than waiting until the wall and the door are there), so this is already out of order, but it’s a lot easier that way. i just ordered 200 feet of agricultural mylar, and i’m going out to buy a door, and the insulation tomorrow.

and i discovered that the shed is not only not square, it is not parallelepiped-shaped, either. it was OBVIOUSLY originally built by someone who DOES! NOT! CARE!, which i find particularly annoying because it was, literally, HIS JOB to care about such things. 😒

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.

the framing for the wall is mostly done: i still have to put in the studs, but everything else is firmed up, secure, and a good deal stronger than it was before… and i found out that, on one side of the shed, the studs are 23 inches apart, and on the opposite side of the shed, the studs are 20 inches apart, so the room i’m building is NOT square. 😒🙄😖

probably finish the wall and ceiling this weekend. possibly the door, as well.

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.