Roof and Bedrooms 2/27/2008

I was able to start getting some of the metal drip edge up along to roof. It was a slow process since I had to keep moving the ladder every 4 nails but I did get a lot up. Jeremy showed up later on Saturday and helped me run to Menards to pick up the bath tub for the girls bathroom and the shower for mine.


Last weekend Doug and I were able to get both Lydia and Ava's bedrooms and bathroom framed up. The picture above is looking at the girls' bathroom and Ava's bedroom(to the left).



The above picture is standing in my bedroom looking toward the laundry room. The three squares at the bottom of the picture are Rachel and my walk in closets. The hallway to the master bath is the middle square. Just above those is the master bath. The 2 X 6 that is on the floor in front of the propane tank separates the master bath and the laundry room.

2/13/2008

Last weekend was a cold one but I was able to get a lot done on Saturday with the help of Dad and Jeremy. We only have about 10 sheets left to put up. Once that is done, I will get the windows delivered and the interior walls put up for the bedrooms and bathrooms. Not much else to report until after this weekend when the roof is sheeted.

Weekend Update...

This weekend went well. It was in the mid to upper 20's and not windy which really helps when your carrying sheets of OSB around.

Saturday we were able to get finish some valley work and some sheets on the lakeside done. It took a while because a lot of it was custom cutting because of the angled valleys.

Sunday we got a late start since we had to go to church because Lydia received her God and Me pin for Girl Scouts. We got going around noon and had to move the scaffolding from one corner to the other.


Looking at the pictures it takes a little time and patience to get the scaffolding set but this will the last time we will have to move it for a while. We got the 2 X 6 fascia board up on the last corner and were able to get the OSB on along the perimeter. So next weekend we will try to finish up the sheeting on the roof.

It helps to have nice weather

Everyone keeps asking me how I'm going to get high enough to finish to roof on the backside of the house. Well, we have been able to gather enough scaffolding from friends that we will be able to 4 1/2 sections high (about 25 feet) and about 3 section wide (10 - 15 feet). We just take our time, move slow and be very careful.

I ended up buying a 40 foot ladder thinking that this was how I was going to finish the roof. Luckily with all the scaffolding I haven't had to use it yet until this weekend. I had to climb up and trim a fascia board that has been hanging out. Standing on the ground and looking up the house looks tall, but once your on a ladder looking down reality kicks in and you really find out how far up you are.

This week end we got about half the roof sheeted. I will post the pictures later since they are still on the camera.

Roof is coming along but...

We are getting a cold snap coming through. The high temp on Saturday is -2. We tried to get a lot done last weekend and as you can see in the pictures we got the fascia board up along the garage, front of the house and along the gable in the front.

Last night I torn down the scaffolding and attempted to set it up in the back but was missing some parts so one I get those I can continue putting up the fascia boards.

We Have Power

We finally got the power installed yesterday. I can now unplug the extension cord from the neighbors and when I pop the breakers I don't have to trudge threw the snow.

Past couple of nights Doug has been rounding up scaffolding for us to use while we are working with the edges of the roof.

This weekend we want to get the 2 X 6's up around the ends of the trusses and possibly the first row of plywood for the roof. I can tell you that I'm looking forward to getting the plywood up so I won't have to shovel snow out of my bedroom anymore(never thought I would say that).

Family update:
Rachel and I brought Ava into Urgent Care on Monday night thinking that she may have pneumonia. 2 others at daycare had it so we thought we would take her in. Unfortunately she did have it. So she has been on meds all week and Rachel has been at home.

Rachel brought her into the clinic today to have Ava's doctor take a look at her. Chest xrays came back negative for pneumonia but the doctor did say she has all the symptoms of a respiratory flu. So she and Rachel maybe home for the first part of next week.

Quick update

I don't have any pictures this time since the work we have done this past week you couldn't see. We ended up having to move all the roof trusses back to the lake 2 1/2 inches. So Saturday we spent a couple of hours removing nails before we had to leave to go to a wedding. Sunday morning I finished removing nails and Doug and I started moving the trusses. Luckily it was about 40 degrees so it wasn't so bad working. We decided to split the roof into 2 sections and move each section separately. This ended up working better than we had thought. And by 4:00 we had the trusses moved and had half of them nailed back down.

Last night I couldn't make it to the house because Rachel and I had to bring Ava to urgent care. Pneumonia has hit a couple of kids at daycare and Ava started showing some of the symptoms. After spending 2 1/2 hours at the hospital, we found out that she did have a little pneumonia in one of her lungs. We feel better now that we started her on some medicine.

Electric Update: This has been on ongoing confusing process but basically we should have our power installed tomorrow. We had an electrician out to install the meter sockets and both the breaker panels before Christmas hoping that we could get the power before then. Xcel called me the week after Christmas saying that they were at the house ready to install the gas and power but could do the power because they needed all the lumber in the driveway moved. So they installed the gas meter and Doug and I spent the night moving all the lumber for the garage and the sheeting for the roof into the garage.

That's it for now. Hopefully we can get the tails of the trusses trimmed this week and possibly start sheeting the roof this weekend.