September 6 A Day Like No Other

This was one crazy day. The roofers showed up at 7:30 and I immediately panicked. My framers were supposed ot come yesterday to finish framing of the overhangs before the roofers arrived. I had to get on the phone right away to my framers to get them here early.

My HVAC guy was here yesterday scoping things out and he got here in time this morning to cut holes in the roof for the bathroom and laundry fans as well as the range hood in the kitchen.

And then I discovered that the plumber hadn't come yet to cut his hole into the bathroom so I had to call him as well. He came after they had shingled over the area but they tore out a section and redid it.

Roy Oler, my electrician was here as well today. He got power out to the garage.

Oh and when it came time to drop the skylight in neither the framer nor the roofer were clear on  who should do it. My framer is very accomodating so he offered to do it. Once they got it out of the box though, they were confused becsuse neither of them had seen this style of skylight before. Although it is a 2'x4' skylight, the frame he had built for it was a little too long so he had to rebuild part of the box and the roofer had to remove some shingles and install extra flashing.

A very stressful day all around.

 The roofers begin. They were very fast.

 My framers beginning work on the overhang roof.

 Our sunpipes hanging inside. They'll be shortened up later.

 The overhang roof has been completed.

 The roof over the entryway.

 End of the day. Framers will be back on Saturday to install the doors and windows and interior walls upstairs.

Oh, and did I mention my garbage bin was delivered today as well.

September 5 Our Shingles Arrive

Today was pretty low key. No trades on sight but the shingles and roofing material were delivered. They'll get installed tomorrow.

 The delivery truck actually had to set up several feet away from the garage. You can see they have a long conveyor belt to place the material on the roof.

Taking the material off the end of the belt

September 2 Exterior framing complete

Well maybe not all of the exterior framing... They still need to frame up the entryway but we're almost there.

 The garage all framed in. It's actually taller than the house. 

A passerby commented on it being a castle. Not sure if that's a good thing.

 The opening for the skylight in the kitchen.

 The framers will be coming back on Wednesday to construct the interior walls.

Aug 31 The Tall Wall goes up

 Here's the crane truck that we had to call in to put the tall wall in place.

 Peyton and Beckett were VERY intested in the proceedings since it involved a truck.

 The tall wall being lowered into place. The wall weighed several hundred pounds.

 View from another angle.

 The plywood sheeting for the roof being hauled up.

 The trusses are almost all in place. we used scissor trusses which gives us a sloped ceiling from 8 feet on the outside walls to 10 feet at the peak. The overall feeling is that of 10 foot ceilings.

This gable end gave us an idea if we ever do a similar construction. We thought that it would be really cool to have windows designed to fill the spaces instead of just plywood.

August 30 Building the tall wall

The framers lost a day or two because of rain and they had to go finish some work elsewhere but today they were back on site building the 20 foot tall wall that will run up the south side of the garage beside the stairway.

 The tall wallwas built on the second floor. A crane will come in later to drop it into place. 

That sucker took a lot of 2x6's to construct it.

The view from the bedroom windows.

August 26 Going up!

 This 20 foot trench took me bout 4 hours or so to dig. I was supposed to dig it 22 inches deep but since I obviously don't know how to read a tape measure it ended up being 31 inches deep. This is where the gas line will be laid from the house to the garage.

 I climbed the ladder to check out progress on the 2nd floor. Notice the creative thumb work in the upper left.

From the alley.

August 22 Floor joists

The floor joists went on today. Next step will be completing the "tall wall" and then nailing down the floor.

 You can see the first few joists. There as an overhang on this side of the suite.

 Dragging the joists into place.

End of the day. All of the joists are now in place. We're waiting on more wood to build the tall wall where the gap is on the right. Once that's done, the upper floor will go up.