Getting There

The visible progress seems to be slowing down now, but good things continue to happen on the house construction project.  The big news this past week is that we got the house roof dried in, that is the water & ice shield roof adhesive underlayment is now installed on the house portion of the roof.  We share a few pictures below to document the continued progress.

The Shop Beautification Project was completed by Michelle & Jim.  We thought it was a very nice touch and much appreciated.

This past week the garage roof was installed.  The first garage truss goes up in the picture below.  It is the same pitch and size as the house roof, but it is just 4 feet higher than the house roof.

First thing this past week, Nate & Chet finished installing the roof sheathing on the south side of the house.  The atmosphere was unsettled and those guys finished the job!  It rained hard a couple hours later and we squeegeed out many gallons of water from the house floor... again, even though the roof sheathing was now on.

Last garage roof truss set.

Chet building out the Outlookers on the garage roof

Nate hangs wall sheathing on the west garage wall.

Nate & Chet made short work of the west wall and moved to the front.

Now sheathing the common house/garage wall.

Common house/garage wall completed.

Nate makes the compound cut to the corner outlooker in the stiff wind.

Now the garage roof sheathing.

Just about all the sheathing completed... except the east gable end which you will see.

The siding/roofing crew came out Friday and dried in the house roof with the adhesive underlayment water & ice.  Now if it rains we shouldn't get much water at all on the house floor.  The weather became increasingly windy on Friday and the guys had to stop with finishing the house roof.  We are tentatively expecting the roofing crew to return Monday afternoon and dry in the garage roof.  You can see the east end gable wall that is the remaining wall to be sheathed. 

Gari & I performed a beta install test on the smaller foam board that fits into the floor joist bays.  It went together easier than we anticipated.  We manufactured foam board pieces for about 20 of the 72 joist bays in a couple of hours.  Not so bad.  We installed two layers of 2" foam board for a total thickness of 4".  It is starting to feel like a Yeti cooler down in the crawlspace.  We will use expanding foam around the edges of the joist bay pieces to lock them in place.  We cut the 2" foam board with a Brisket Knife.  You can see the 14" knife laying on the footing at frame bottom right.  That knife is SHARP!!!

Looking good down there.  We will place 2 layers of foam board on the ground as the last part of the foam board installation. 

Concluding photo for the end of last week.  Lift in place to complete the east end gable sheathing on Monday morning.  House roof dried in.  The windows and french door are here and you an seem them below, sitting on the porch wrapped in plastic.  With any luck and good weather we may get some of the windows installed this coming week.  Siding crew wants to start July 5th.  Exciting times for us here in Swan Valley.

We leave this blog post with Michelle's flowers of love in front of the Shop.