The last entry ended with wood being loaded onto the floor in preparation for building the walls.
And now we have some walls - the east and south walls to be exact. Notice that the detached garage is mostly shingled except for a few feet at the top of the back side.
This wall went up really quickly - I hardly had time to snap the picture!!! Could be because it was one of the smaller walls, and there were a ton of guys there behind it lifting it up - see all the heads?
Richie said this wall was the hardest of all because of the wind. Lots of help from Vince, Rob, Jas (blue head), Kyle, Richie, Scott, Morgan, Doug and . . .
. . . Sheldon on the outside. I like all the hands showing through the windows and door. This is the mud room, kitchen and dining room. Once the wall was standing and I was gazing out my kitchen windows, I realized that I had a lovely view of a tree - and nothing else. The next day the tree was gone and now I'll have a lovely view of the deck and kids playing in the back yard. And there are still lots of trees!
A side view and the nicely shingled front view of the garage. Dual black shingles again - I like them best.
And I included this picture simply because I like it, and it's my blog!!! haha
Okay, it looks like all the exteriors wall for the house are built - now it's just the attached garage needing walls. Need to get some serious backfilling done!
It's Elder K helping out - screwing down sheeting.
This was Nov.15 and the next picture is Nov. 25 - brace yourself for a big change!!!!
Snow!!! And trusses!!! We got lots of snow and then the weather plunged into a deep freeze. Fortunately, Rich was sick at this time too (I don't mean it was good that he got sick, but it was good that he got sick when it was too cold and miserable to work outside!) We took a trip to Lethbridge on one of the cold days. We were pulling the trailer so we could buy insulation for the garage. On the way, our fan belt came off and the truck died. As we were sitting there, we saw a truck going down the highway loaded down with our trusses - a beautiful sight! And eventually our truck got fixed and our mission was successful!
Okay, so because of the weather, our backfilling didn't happen like we'd hoped. It's hard to put up the garage walls when the ground is so much lower than where the floor will be - see how low the guys are. But they are amazing and are lifting a wall!!!
Today's helpers are Richard, Rob, Richie and Brent.
I was out Christmas shopping and got home to take pictures of the crane lifting the trusses onto the roof right as it finished. At least it was still there for the picture! We had to have Fred and the big yellow machine come in and clear out snow drifts so the crane wouldn't get stuck - didn't want stuckness added to our hourly crane bill!
And that is Clarence up there helping Richie with trusses. He travelled great distances on winter roads and gave up his Grey Cup tickets to come and help. Thank you so much Clarence!!!
Yes, I took this from inside my warm vehicle on my way to do more Christmas shopping! Can you see the bonus room up there above the garage? Isn't that great!!! In case you were wondering, the flat peak of the roof is designed for sun-tanning.
This is the sight that met me when I returned from shopping - most of the trusses were up, it was dark and it was snowing again!!!!
Richie and Jordyn in the great room - I LOVE the vaulted ceiling!!!
Clarence, Kevin and Drew and the white dots are snowflakes coming down through the trusses. Richie has shovelled out the house three times now. These flakes were the beginning of another big snowfall.
Here's that southwest corner view again. Looking better and better all the time!!!
And I should tell you that the real reason for the flat peaks is because the truss machine doesn't make trusses taller than 14 feet. Our peaks are another little piece that Richie will attach - called piggybacking.
And a south east view this time - love the cantilever! That's my bedroom!!!
And there's Richie up there sheeting the roof. I'm so glad he has such great balance!!!
And now I must tell you that I delight in power tools!!! Can you imagine nailing all this by hand, or cutting all this wood by hand? Me either - we'd still be back at the floor joists!
And that brings us to the end of November - exactly a month and a half of house building
(and the detached garage still isn't quite all shingled!).
