friday night robby and i finished laying out the last bit of wall. robby voted first... notice the sticker.
robby's super cool safety goggles... nice reflection.
proof i do more than just document the progress... i {heart} power tools.
laid out, ready to go up saturday morning.
ryan came over again saturday to lend us a (tall) hand... and we got the wall raised just the 3 of us.
henry telling us how it should go....
plumb walls!
ripping off the existing roof to make way for roof rafters...
my role in this part was clean up... i made up a game for the dumpster throw called "death stick toss". all the boards that come out of the demo work all have old huge rusty nails attached to them... hence the name death stick. they are dangerous. but my game was fun...
the roof was on fire at some point in the history of this house. we knew that, but saw first hand the results when some of the rafters were exposed.
flash forward to roof rafters up! this moved really quickly. ryan and i measured, marked, and lifted. then ryan and robby nailed into place. (i physically couldn't handle the nail gun up on the ladder... so sad)
visitors... stevie, katherine, and hannah. and our neighbor and friend brian helped with the rafters once ryan left. both brian and ryan were a HUGE help!
back to work after the visitor break. robby and brian knocked out the majority of the work:
by the end of the day, it really started to feel like a space we could live in, not just walls.
we were TIRED.... thank goodness bryan's wife, kathleen, made us a yummy dinner.
sunday sunday sunday!
today was rough.... it was hard to get going, but as always, starbucks helped.
the task of the day was to get roof sheathing on. (i.e. 4'x8' sheets of 1/2" plywood attached to the roof rafters). it was my job to lift these sheets of plywood up to robby.... holy moly i'm making new muscles all the time now.
our pile of plywood:
step 1: get it leaned up against the wall:
step 2: lift it up to robby (no photos of this)
step 3: robby maneuvered these giant sheets like they were sheets of cardboard. he is amazing... and definitely had the hardest job!
real progress! this really feels like the addition i designed. we have decided to keep the angled corner in the kithen open and just put glass in. more money,but we think it will be really nice.
this corner is facing south so it gets filled in with wall. but there is our bathroom! so exciting to watch it come together...
views from around the house...
from the back yard: (if it looks wonky and like it is sloping, it is an illusion... everything is plumb, square, and level. checked and double checked... it freaked us out, too)
best view is from the side street.
just to make it very clear how terrible we look after every work day, we have our self portrait. we really are having a great time doing this together!
and to end, we have a little bit of rafter art.
1 comment:
rebecca! this is so awesome! it looks like it's really coming along. i can't wait to see it in person!
looks like the two of you are having a great time - how fun!
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