The Construction Trades program from the Career and Technical Center is finishing a beautiful shed for a customer right on time for the holiday break.
The shed was built frame-to-finish by students in the program, and wired by students in the Electricity program. From laying out the framing plans in our shop to touching up paint and putting up the final trim boards, hundreds of hours of hard work went into this project to create a wonderfully finished product. The shed is sided with LP Smart-Side, an innovative composite siding material, and features a hip roof that forms an overhang on all four sides of the shed, supported by architectural pillars. Inside of the shed are two lofts for overhead storage, and a fully finished and insulated ‘she-shed’ room complete with can lights, tongue-and-groove pine ceilings, wall boards, and trim.
One of the more challenging parts of the build was the roof. Framing the hip roof was a new challenge for students, which they overcame with immense success. Lots of precise math, measuring, and cutting went into the framing, and new methods were taught to the students. Even shingling the roof proved to be a new challenge, with more angles to cut and caps to place. In the end, the roof came out perfect, with square framing, properly installed shingles, and stunning exterior trim.
All in all, the shed took approximately one year to build. The walls were assembled in our shop, and delivered to the site at the beginning of the 2024-25 school year. Construction will be completed around the end of December 2025. Throughout the shed build, the Construction Trades program also took on additional projects for the homeowner; they gutted and renovated the sunroom down to the studs, insulated the garage, and drywalled the garage.
The Construction Trades program is proud of their hard work, and is ready to take on whatever project comes next after the winter break.
