That’s about it for today 🙂
House – Roof Rakes
I enclosed the ones connecting to the inside of the house so bugs wouldn’t get in. Screen was stapled over the ventilation holes.
The field was just mowed, a glimpse of how nice a place it’ll be once we’re out of the chaos of construction.
House – More Windows
Small 2nd hand windows for now, all framing will allow for a bigger ones later on.
Custom cut cedar trims, me likey
Let there be light
House – Roof Rakes & a couple of Windows
After a week long break I’m getting back into it. It may seem backwards to do the roof rakes after putting the roof on but I had to make a time management decision while I had everyone helping last Saturday.
Other adventures included snakes & phantoms.
House – flashing for impermeability
Rough day & fair progress.
Compost bin turned over, beehive opened up & other signs of bears
We heard what we think is a cub calling for mommy last night. It had been calling for a while, unfortunately the flashlight made it stop, we were hoping to see it.
Garden
Not much but happy to have something with everything going on this year.
House – Roof Trusses
No work today, lazy rainy Sunday. I did check on the house to make sure the tarp was keeping the water away which it did.
4 down 18 to go
House – Stairs & Roof Trusses
Of course I’m missing lumber for the last step 🙂
Fixing the 22.5° problem, one trial at a time.
Unfortunately I forgot to snap a pic of the resulting trusses, tomorrow.
House – Getting a door and some stairs
I raised the platform a bit to prevent conflict with the door, add storage, and because I think I can fit a little desk under the bottom stairs.
After a heavy storm, we upgraded the 2nd floor tarp
House – Shitty day
Sun-burnt, bug bitten, wind eroded, eye wood dusted and barely any progress. I’m taking a break tomorrow.
The guide I made for cutting 22.5° angles for the trusses was 0.5° off.
0.5° adds up when repeated 4 times over 2 6 feet spans.
House – Sheathing, 2nd floor joist blocking & 2nd floor OSB
Today saw an amazing push with help from Peter, Matt, Rich & Kevin. This was quite a crew and 3 daunting tasks were taken care of fast & well. Nicole & I are ever so grateful for the help we received today; it was a lot of work, a lot of support and it puts us right in front of being able to raise the frame of the second floor. There is nothing like seeing walls go up to strengthen building will.
Sweet blocking!
There’s a party on the 2nd floor
House – Finished 2nd floor joists & some sheathing
The OSB isn’t attached to the 2nd subfloor yet but it’ll help prevent the tarp from sagging. It almost looks like a shelter!
House – 2nd floor progress
Another 12h days, too tired for comments, just a bunch of pics.
