Category Archives: House Project

It was a big day today. The roof went up today. The rafters were cut yesterday and were delivered this morning to the roof platform with a crane. One by one the guys lifted them up to the ridge pole … Continue reading →

The attic floor went in today. They put some scaffolding on the side of the house to stand on while they put the joists up. The joists for the attic floor are the widest pieces of lumber in the whole … Continue reading →

The second floor walls went up today. They used the same technique as they did for the first floor walls, build ’em flat on the floor and then lift them into place. Sometimes they had to, um, stretch a bit … Continue reading →

They put the second floor on today. This where the Micro-Lam comes in. It provides extra support across the open spaces of the first floor without using columns. It would be unsightly to have Lally columns in the middle of … Continue reading →

They put up the first floor walls today. The first wall that went up was the back wall to the sun room. That is a really nice looking wall. The ceiling will be a high ceiling, all the way up … Continue reading →

I have no blog entry today because nothing really happened at the house today except the delivery of more lumber….. well…. unless you count this as a blog entry… in which case I did blog today and I was wrong … Continue reading →

It is day two of the framing. There is not much to show today even though a lot of work was done. It just wasn’t very visually dramatic work. They finished the floor. Then, they started building the walls. They … Continue reading →

They started framing the house today. Finally, we are building our house. First order of business is to put in the sills. The sills sit on the top of the foundation wall and hold up the house. You can see … Continue reading →

More lumber has been delivered to the site. The yellow boards in the photo below are the Micro-Lam beams. They are really really long! They are Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL), and are made up of lots of layers of thinner … Continue reading →

I haven’t posted for a few days. The rain and heat and delays have kept progress to a minimum. But the sewer guys finally showed up on Wednesday and put in the sewer line. Actually, it was a sewer guy … Continue reading →