Got a welcoming visitor today: He was hanging around the kitchen and yelling….. sorry, the pantry isn’t stocked yet.
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Day 40
Looks a lot more like a house with sheathing….. here’s the rear of the house: Lots of windows and doors. Brown concrete area is the outside covered patio. For the geeky photographers: this was taken in pretty dark conditions, 1/6 second @ f2.8, no flash, hand held…. digital does have it’s advantages over film.
Day 38: Framing
Yes, it’s a Sunday. But here we are, hard at work. Front door just to left of centre, office window on right. They framed the exterior *house* walls first; then comes the garage walls, then comes interior walls, then the roof. Living room windows, each one will be a 5′ x 5′ fixed window, so …
Bolting House to Foundation
So in most places with decent building codes, you need to bolt the house down to the foundation…. sounds hard but is really pretty simple. Step 1: insert some threaded anchors into the concrete foundation while it’s still wet. Then when it’s time to put down the base plate, just drill holes, and add a …
Day 27
It’s a roof! OK, more of a kit, some assembly required. These are engineered roof trusses – designed and built in a factory to your specifications. They’re much stronger than building them yourself; we were going to need a supporting post in the middle of the living/dining/kitchen area, but because of the extra strength of …