Soggy Weekend 3/30/14

So this weekend we made our best attempt at keeping some progress going at the site. Had the weather been good the plan was to stand up some SIP panels. I think we'll be delayed a good 3-4 days for weather. As we'll need to dry off before we stand walls. Those of you who expressed interest in seeing the SIP panels go up. This Friday and Saturday we'll be doing just that. If you have some time to lend a hand for a couple hours feel free to come by!

On Saturday our work was cut short, I was fully soaked in about 2 hours even under 'cover'. Here are some pictures of what we did and of the conditions at the site. Some of the activites were finishing up screwing down the tiedowns in various locations, and putting up additional hangers for the joists.

Screwing down the tie-downs

Roof deck under heavy rain

Had a nice swimming pool in the mudroom

Nice swimming pool going in the far corner of the garage

We spent Sunday cleaning up the mess and trying to get water out of places where there shouldn't be.
Fun stuff...

Rainy Day Progress:3/26/14 Stairs!

The entrance stairs up to the main floor and down to the mudroom are finished..

Stairs up from the mudroom

Stairs down to the mudroom

looking down to entrance landing from main floor

looking at entrance landing from front

View from the street

Pic from the weekend..

Not a lot of change from the Friday pics. But you can see the deck coming together on the side of the house. Some SIP panels sitting there in the background as well in case you were wondering what those were.

deck coming together!

Timelapse video 3/08 to 3/21

3/20 Updated Pics

Things are progressing well. We're ready to start taking receipt of the SIPs.

View out the west side from living area

Looking towards the backyard

looking at the entire main floor

Looking at the garage from the driveway

Inside garage

Taking a peek inside mudroom

From mudroom looking into garage

Crawlspace

where the deck will go

3/18 Progress shot

With the new beams up the rest of the trusses go in to complete the base of the main floor:

Main floor trusses over the garage are in

Beams over the garage!

The large beams that span the garage were delivered today and installed:

Large beams IN!

View from the top

Even got some floor joists in today!

This weekends work

So this weekend's work was 2 parts. Getting some nails in hangers along the 2 large beams going lengthwise across the house. The 2nd part was rotating all the lumber to make room for the grade-all to get into the garage to lift the big beams that are being delivered monday.

Those 2 black nails.. thats me

Tools of the trade

All the wood neatly stacked towards the rear. Also notice I can get my car up there now

Sistered cantilevered beams for the decking

Main floor going in!

Finally starting to see what the main floor will look like.
The adventech floorboards going in over the floor trusses:

Subfloor being installed

Thursday View

A progress shot from today. Looking from the garage, through the mudroom and into the crawlspace.

Delivery of Floor Trusses!

Grade-all lifting our floor trusses

Truss going in

Looking pretty solid

This weekends update 3/8/14

So this weekend we had some homework to do. We had to move a new lumber delivery up the hill to the build pad. We had to drive in some tie-downs. And finally had to seal the sill plate on the exterior. Thanks Ryan & Mike for the additional hands. OSB sheets are heavy! Check out the end of the timelapse you'll see us doing the work!

The new pile unstrapped

The stack of OSB we moved!

The lumber pile moved up!

Floor level of the home

View towards garage

View north

Timelapse 2/22 to 3/08 - Rain then Framing!

Towards the end of the clip you'll see the framing go up over the last week.
For next week I moved the camera back up the hill to look down at the build site and doubled the rate at which pictures are taken. It will be interesting to see how that turns out.

Framing day 3 photo..

North wall almost complete..

End of day 2

Finished up the day getting the back wall started..

You can make out the window locations and the door to the outside

A story of a wall...

You can see a structure through the trees..

a little closer

oh look a wall.. its quite tall

more wood for the pile

Looks like the back wall is next..

The 1st post is raised!

Another milestone is hit. Our first stick is up in the air.

1st corner post in the garage is up!

Sil plate was down all around the perimeter. Things should start changing fast from here!
More pics to come..

The drones are coming!

My old friend Eric T. came up with a r/c copter and did a couple of test flights. It was outfitted with a sony camcorder with a fisheye lens.. here's a picture of the copter:

Our robot oppressors have arrived

Below are the 2 movies taken during the flights. It was quite blustery on Saturday so we couldn't go that far without risking hitting branches etc.







It would be neat to launch this from the neighbors on a preprogrammed flight path to take pictures of the sight everyday!

Eric also sent me this link to a rant by Adam Corolla about building codes and retaining walls.. it hit home for me.. funny stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ZdY9BLbgQ

Lumber delivery! 3/1/14

Well this weekends project was about getting lumber up to the build pad. We took delivery at about 9:45 AM and the truck couldn't make it up the mush so he had to drop the load right at the bottom of the driveway. Which meant we had to human power it up the hill one stick at a time.

Lumber delivery as dropped off

  My 10 year old daughter Tanya and I lugged 2x6's up the hill all morning..

Starting to stack on the garage pad

Finished stack of wood

All done!

 At about 1pm we finished up. I also wanted to show you a pretty clever use of our stairwell. A few playwood boards and a door were used by our contractor to make a makshift shed to store equipment.

Creative interim use of stairwell

Framing will start this week.. there should be some more interesting pictures/video of the project once that starts.