Today's post will be about our lovely Sud Shack. It's coming along nicely. We were able to put up the "walls" pretty quickly. For this, we used some more particle plywood and screen. This is Texas and out here we have mosquitoes the size of birds! Actually, the homestead is relatively mosquito free but we have found scorpions and spiders. I'm sure once our chicas are out roaming about the problem will be controlled but just to be safe, we screen it anyway.
The long distance shot here makes the shack seem so small compared to the studio. If y'all keep up with the Project Homestead post then you already know the sud shack is 6' x 8'3" and those additional three inches make all the difference. ... My sick humor has me making jokes about extra inches ... I will keep it classy and move on to what we used to make this happen.
Garden shears can be so useful.
The screen. Now, when it comes to screen there are actually more options than you would think. We went with el cheap aka fiberglass screening. They have available screens made of metal and others that provide solar and UV protection, but we didn't need the up grade so we saved that money for the next project.
Putting the screen up is really easy, use a staple gun and call that done:) we only screened the upper four feet so we used 48" screen in a roll with 25ft, we needed 24ft so this couldn't have worked out better. I stapled along the vertical line to start it and wrapped it around stapling along the top as I went. Really easy and pretty quick too.
We also added two 45*s in the back corners because without solid walls the shack had some sway to it.
Now for the bottom half of the wall.
Once we had the board up everything felt nice and tight. Now I'm off to the never ending story of painting everything.
Till next time y'all keep it green, clean, and classy.
Shalimar
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