The roof trusses came with a lot of documents. Here they are, if you are interested. General Notes: Trusses are not marked in any way to identify the frequency or location of temporary later restraint and diagonal bracing. Follow the recommendations for handling, installing and …
How Just One Guy Got All the Trusses off a Truck Someone had put up a sign marking where the trusses go. Nailed it. First he took off the flasher and put it away. Then he had to move the wood for the porch out …
They have finished putting up the cladding and have cut open some of the windows. They delivered rolls of green wrap with the rest of the materials and I wanted to see how they put it up. When we got there, they had put the …
It was beautiful over the weekend. Cliff got the field mowed and started clearing some of the brush. He treats the mower like it is a bush hog. We found more golf balls. Someone used to use this field as a driving range. I think …
The new house comes with satin nickel door knobs. I’m not a fan. They have some very nice options you can choose instead, but I really love the rose gold door knobs on the log cabin. I decided I would move the satin nickel ones …
They next time we dropped by the site, they already had walls up! They held the walls in place temporarily with 2 x 4s propping them in place. Fewer guys came today, but they are moving right along! Next: Garage is Framed, Sheathing Begins >
Framing started! We knew something was going on when we saw all the trucks. All the other crews have car pooled. Every framer drove a truck. Remember those bolts they mortared into the block? The first thing they did is bolt pressure treated lumber to …
I missed them getting the bulldozer into the house and I did not want to miss seeing them get it back out again. I went down to the house at sunrise and started a stakeout, waiting. I’m glad I went so early! They showed up …
Late in the day the graders showed up and started moving dirt around again. There is a lot of dirt. From Dartmouth, you can’t even see there is a house being built back there. It looked like they were just rearranging the piles. But they …
Last week someone showed up and marked the block. I think this marks where the ground will come to when the house is done. The forecast was for rain and can-you-believe-it snow. We got the rain, but somebody else got the snow. It is April! …
