2008-05-29
Framing at Last
The framers were suppose to come on Tuesday but surprise, surprise we got a phone call instead saying they were delayed and either Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning and a 7:15 Thursday morning (today) they arrived ready to work. Work they did, three walls were erected, the sheathing put on the walls, the trusses put up and they started on the roof sheathing.
If feels like Ed has been building the stairs on the deck all week --- oh he has been. So much for the 2 day project. We thought the easiest and most cost effective change to the deck was to build steps on the patio side that matched the steps on the other side of the deck. A little bit of engineering was required to make sure the steps and deck were supported correctly but mostly a no-brainer (Ed's an engineer after all). When he pulled off the top boards he found rotting wood so more boards had to come off to find out how bad it was. Luckily not too bad, only a couple of supporting boards needed to be replaced. After lots of fiddling he was ready to put the step back into place --- oh no the step wasn't level, it tipped back allowing water to pool and thus rot the wood. This meant he got to pull another step off and bring it into level so it would match the new level steps he was putting it. A lot of three steps back one step forward. Hmmm, maybe we should have built a new deck.
Second wall going up.
Trusses are in place, now it's time for the roof sheathing.
Ed's sweeping the polymer sand into the spaces between the bricks --- suppose to stop weeds from growing between the bricks
The forever step project.
If feels like Ed has been building the stairs on the deck all week --- oh he has been. So much for the 2 day project. We thought the easiest and most cost effective change to the deck was to build steps on the patio side that matched the steps on the other side of the deck. A little bit of engineering was required to make sure the steps and deck were supported correctly but mostly a no-brainer (Ed's an engineer after all). When he pulled off the top boards he found rotting wood so more boards had to come off to find out how bad it was. Luckily not too bad, only a couple of supporting boards needed to be replaced. After lots of fiddling he was ready to put the step back into place --- oh no the step wasn't level, it tipped back allowing water to pool and thus rot the wood. This meant he got to pull another step off and bring it into level so it would match the new level steps he was putting it. A lot of three steps back one step forward. Hmmm, maybe we should have built a new deck.
Second wall going up.
Trusses are in place, now it's time for the roof sheathing.
Ed's sweeping the polymer sand into the spaces between the bricks --- suppose to stop weeds from growing between the bricks
The forever step project.
# posted by The Agnew Family @ 10:18 AM 
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