House

[Carl_NH]

Re: House, Roof Framing

Rob,

You've got a great site and great looking house going up. It takes a lot of time an patience to make a house a home..

Looks like you'll have some seat time making a driveway as well a pond. Good luck and keep em' happy hammering.

Carl

 

[MDNY]

Re: House, Roof Framing

Rob,

I can't say I blame them with regard to the roof pitch issue. Our original roof design had 12/12 pitches all over the place, but the cost was too high so we opted for 8/12 on the hips and 10/12 on the turret. We had to cut cost somewhere, and we retained the effect of the turret being the focal point.

We hope to be under way in the next few weeks, come hell or high water, it snowed today, not anything major, but enough to irritate.

 

[ewoss3]

Re: House, Roof Framing

Rob, glad to see that you are making headway. keep the crew happy

 

[MossRoad]

Re: House, Roof Framing

House is starting to look like... a house! Looks great /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

 

[RobS]

Re: House, Roof Framing

We were out there again last night but the camera batteries died/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif. The I-joists for the roof rafters were delivered (30 footers /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif ) and they have the staircases built to the second and third floors (attic). Makes me a bit nervous though as the staircase to the basement will support all this but it can't go in until the basement floor is poured. They've got some temporary beams in place for now.

Hoping for some continued nice weather /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[RobS]

Re: House, Roof Rafters

Huge week on the housing front for us. Firstly, we sold our current house/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif We're quite relieved about that and tomorrow we go to look at the rental house we've got in mind.

Thursday the framers began setting roof rafters on the main house roof. Of course this is a day I'm out of town, so I can't even sneak out of work to have a look. My wife fills me in by phone as she delivers a load of snacks to the guys.

We knew this house was going to be tall and that's part of the look we're after, but OH MY! From the attic floor to the ridge beam is 22 feet! The scaffold to set the beam sits on the collar ties (equivalent to a fourth floor) and it's still 11 feet to the peak. I climbed up there last night and it's spectacular. Quite a view of our lot, including all the mud and ruts. Not sure how I'm going to mow this summer, may just have to let some of it go until the driveway is in/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[shade2u2]

Re: House, Roof Rafters

Things are sure looking good. That roof peak is way up there! You're going to have a great looking place for the family.
Ours is completely under roof. Our weather was decent this week so we got most of the front area (about 1 acre) away from the construction seeded yesterday. I hope to get more of it seeded this week.
Here's my latest pic of the "farmhouse".

 

[RobS]

Re: House, Roof Rafters

That's coming right along Shade. A bit reminiscent of our current house with the front porch. You're going to love that feature if you don't already have one. We spend many summer evenings out on the porch/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[RobS]

A lot of progress on our house from our perspective, though it may not show in the latest photos. Roof framing is going slowly due to the steep pitches. They'ye coming right along on the main roof including some sheathing. Started the front roof pitch and the turret is all that remains up top. We're hoping to be weathered in in the next week or two.

But today was treehouse day! My seven year old and I put up the deck of a pretty cool tree house. I'll have to get some pictures tomorrow when we finish the railings. Takes me back to my childhood plus I got to use my tractor/FEL to move some building materials around /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

This picture was taken from the top of the upper roof peak. It's about 48 feet down to my truck below. I think I'll hire out the gutter cleaning in the future /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[MDNY]

RobS,

You better make sure you have your wings on the next time your up there that is high. You should consider the different types of gutter covers that allow for water to get in but debri stays out. With that roof height, I can't imagine anyone wants to get up there. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

As for us, we will be under way in about two weeks weather permitting. I met the excavators today at the property to mark off the clearing zone and where they are goinb to push the debri. After about a day or so after they start I will meet them again and review where they are so we can make sure all is well. I have about 100' of buffer zone between teh driveway and house to give that woodsy feeling. Now all I have to do is send in the contract with their deposit.

Long live the building process. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif