More free materials! A friend called to say there was a sort of deck about to be trashed at his construction site. Several large sheets of plywood and some lumber were available if i got there quick.
This was early in the project so i had not accumulated many tools yet. I borrowed my dad's flatbed and power tools. Unfortunately the power of the tools and myself were not up to the task of dismantling the glued and screwed platform.
His tools had ni-cad batteries which lose their charging capacity if not managed meticulously. This was a good lesson for me. When i began accumulating tools i chose only lithium batteries and so happy i did.
After i was unable to make much progress, the super nice guys at the job site helped dissassemble the platforms. I got 14 sheets of 12 foot long plywood! And also a bunch of boards. I climbed in their dumpster and retrieved all the usable boards i could find.
The salvaged plywood formed the subfloor for my bedroom.
Before i even got the grain bins bolted together, one neighbor who works in demolition said i could go through his piles before he burned what was removed from his demo sites.
His clients house had fire damage. Per insurance they had to deconstruct the damaged areas. So he ended up pulling a couple of trailer loads of double thick routed hardwood boards from the ceiling of that a-frame house. I didn't have a structure at that point so we used blocks and tarps to protect the boards over the winter.
Friends helped me remove fasteners from the boards.
And as soon as the subfloor was down, the handy chain hoist was used to move strapped bundles of boards up to the bedroom.
A bedroom of course needs a closet. As soon as i started building this shelving the cats decided this stud was a scratching post. So i wrapped jute rope around it and they spend each day clawing the rope to shreds.
Thanks for your attention. Next time i will share how i installed insulation and ceiling to a domed grain bin roof.
