House

[MReeter]

Re: House, Ready for Roof Framing

Rob,Things are looking good.Also looks like someone is going to have lot of mowing to do one day!!!!

 

[MDNY]

Re: House, Ready for Roof Framing

Rob,

Time does fly when your having fun. Me I am still waiting on the appraiser for the bank. We have now started to get some rain, so I guess a few more days won't hurt. As long as we can get underway in the next week I will be happy, any longer and I will have some issues. While I realize this is a hot time of year, I am forced to wait on an individual who can say yeah or nay on my project by his proposal. The other bad thing is I have nothing near me currenlty built that even comes close to what we are builder.

On the brighter side I pull the trigger on a new digital camera, and have some goodies to buy tomorrow for it. Got a great deal and can't wait to start taking photo's. By the way keep your coming.

 

[RobS]

Re: House, Ready for Roof Framing

Mike (MDNY), good going on the digital camera. Obviously, I've been having fun with mine. I must remember to share as many pictures with my mom as my TBN buds since she got it for me /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Mike (MReeter), won't be as much grass to mow as you might think. We're planning on having some finished lawn around the house (subdivision size area) and let the rest resemble pasture with a bush-hogging every month or so. Eventually want to start a prairie, but will have to wait a bit, those seeds are pricey /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

 

[RobS]

Re: House, Garage Trusses

Here's a shot from today. The guys worked yesterday since it rained Friday. Got the garage trusses up and some more second floor sheathing. The trusses are a two piece affair with the cap trusses going on a bit later. They'd have been too big to transport in one piece. This shot is taken looking at the front of the house.

We've been keeping the guys pretty well stocked with donuts, cookies, cup-cakes, fruit and Snickers bars. Seems to be going over pretty well. I've also been trying to help with some clean up where I can. I'd rather pay them to frame than clean /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[MossRoad]

Re: House, Garage Trusses

Very nice!

 

[Soundguy]

Re: House, Garage Trusses

I did the same thing. I would go out to my house while it was being built and bring a coller full of coke, or OJ in the mornings.. twinkies, etc... The guys were always working hard, and took less breaks to 'run to the store' .

All it cost me was less than 100 bucks through the whole course of the house.. and the workers did little extras for us as well.... like reinforce the cieling with 2x6's over an area in the kitchen for a hanging pot rack for my wife. etc.
They are also a lot less likely to to a 'grudge sabotage' on ya.

Soundguy

"We've been keeping the guys pretty well stocked with donuts, cookies, cup-cakes, fruit and Snickers bars. Seems to be going over pretty well. I've also been trying to help with some clean up where I can. I'd rather pay them to frame than clean "

 

[RobS]

Re: House, Garage Trusses

Finally had a chance to download some more pics. This was taken the other day as they were putting the garage trusses up. Too big for one piece so they split them in two. Kind of nifty how that works. Sheathing and felt paper is on since then. Finally, the guys have had a decent stretch of weather to work in /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[RobS]

Re: House, Interior Shot

Not much to show here, but I felt obliged to include a shot of the interior. Others have mentioned it, and we did it in our current house so I'll bring it up again... Once all the rough-ins are in, but before insulation, I'll be taking lots of photos of these walls. I have referred back to those shots for our current house hundreds of times. Even plan on leaving the album for the new owners when we sell /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[RobS]

Re: House, Roof Framing

Here's an action shot of the crew hard at work on the roof framing. They're not too pleased with us, but as our GC says, she pays them a certain amount to grumble a bit. The focus of the grumbling is the 14/12 pitch roofs and the heights. The peak will be 22 feet above the attic floor. Shown here are "knee walls", actually about nine feet high and the collar ties. Conveniently for us, this structure will frame up a dandy space in the attic for a future bonus room. I-joist rafters are supposed to show up Tuesday. I told the guys we'd bring some extra special goodies on ridge beam day /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[RobS]

Re: House, Roof Framing

Here's a picture taken from the driveway where I made the cut through the old fencerow. It's become a semi-permanent pond but we'll bring in some fill later to raise the drive /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif