Three Months On.........

It is now exactly three months since we broke ground and it is nice to look back on all that has been accomplished. Kirk has revelations (or nightmares) in the middle of the night over something he missed or could have done differently. I sleep like a baby!



Enjoying the view from the tub location.......need candles, loofah and rubber duck.



Looking through master bedroom window. The long pole shows where the top of the roof will be.




Top of roof pitch from second floor. Cathedral ceilings in bedrooms.



These two images show the first supporting beams and posts that will be exposed in the house. We covered them in an effort to keep them clean but will need to remove many black smudgy finger prints that appeared during erection. These things are heavy!




More Simpson supports and fasteners.

Finally the guys were able to put in a temporary staircase to access the second floor. This was a huge bonus after all the hundred of trips hauling materials up and down ladders.

Sarah enjoying the view from the top. The door buck behind her will access the upstairs deck


We decided that sometimes a jury rigged job is not always the safest, so Kirk spent the weekend putting in an "OSHA" standard temporary floor to house the scaffolding for the remainder of the 2nd floor walls.

The accumulation of debris and burn piles seems inevitable in a project of this size. The size and number of piles are congruent with the size of the house. Plenty of old concrete, dirt, rusty poles and wood scraps going very cheap!