At Home In The Woods

[Obed]

We had a disaster with our trusses- they got off by 1.5 inches putting them down, as you can see in a picture.

Pete, that sounds like a nightmare. I'm sorry you went through that. People often talk about building their "dream home". Sometimes the dream can be pretty stressful.

Obed

 

[TBDonnelly]

Well, your above ground and that's awsome.

I say that exact same phrase to/about myself, everyday!

Don

 

[2manyrocks]

I was wondering what the house looks like today since we had snow in Mid Tn yesterday. Assume you got it, too.

Starting to look like something now that the ceiling trusses are going in.

 

[Obed]

Yes, we got snow, lots of it. I'm showing pictures starting from the culdesac at the street, then heading down our driveway toward the house.

 

[Obed]

Here's what I did all day today.

 

[Obed]

I'm going to be sore tomorrow. My back is already extremely tired. I shovelled snow off of 2/3 of our subfloor until I tuckered out about at about 4:30 PM. The main floor is 2100 square feet. Man that's a lot of snow. Thursday I borrowed a snow shovel from my father-in-law in anticipation of the forecasted snow.

While shovelling the snow this morning, it became painfully obvious that the snow shovel by itself was not adequate for this size job. It's too bad I couldn't figure out some way to use the tractor. So I got a sheet of OSB and used it as a giant scraper. This device helped alot but it was still slow going and back-breaking work. Plus, I couldn't just push the snow out of the house. I would first use the OSB sheet to push the snow into a pile by a window. I then had to throw the snow out the window shovel full by shovel full. The snow was very wet and extremely heavy. By the end of the day, the wet snow was sticking/freezing to the shovel and was making it hard to throw the snow through the window.

I'm not sure that I've got it in me to shovel the remaining 700 SF tomorrow.

Obed

 

[FallbrookFarmer]

Here's what I did all day today.

Your probably thinking right now "What a PITA" But you'll look back 20 years from now with relish about how you built your own home and about how much you learned doing it.
Stay strong, your almost there!

 

[shane]

Tomorrow in middle TN it's going to be 36F and partly sunny. That might speed up the process of getting rid of the snow. However, the more you get shoveled out, the less water to deal with.

Look at it this way, think of all the money you are saving by not having to purchase a gym membership.

 

[dcyrilc]

Enjoy it while you can... It won't be long and the wife's not going to be happy if you're playing with large amounts of snow in the house.

 

[dave1949]

Here's what I did all day today.

That's one of those gotcha's there is no dodging. Hope your back holds up.
Dave.