It’s a funny thing, writing these posts about our build. Next to my word processor I have a list in my sticky notes that reflects my daily jottings of the progress we made. On it, I can see Day 5,6,7, etc. All the way up to Day 87 (as of today). Yet, when writing about what we accomplished, I can honestly relive it. And it seems like just yesterday that we were putting down the subfloor in the loft. (more…)
Now that all four walls of the main floor had been sheeted, I was eager to get things moving to frame our loft. A co-worker with experience in construction had suggested I sheet the walls prior to framing the second floor and roof. He said this would give rigidity to the structure and help to tie the studs together. That makes sense, but I also knew that OSB degrades when exposed to the elements. The race was on. (more…)
When I began the process of designing this website and blog, I had to seriously ask myself the question “why?” Let me back track a little bit; I should have titled this post “The reason why I post and all that entails,” but that seems too wordy. (more…)
Up to this point, things had been cruising along. I was ahead of schedule, and probably for the last time. Day 4 is where things began to get physically challenging – all thanks to OSB. (more…)
I’d like to tell you that Day 3 went without any errors on my part, but that would be erroneous. At this point of writing, I’m surprised at how much I seemed to be screwing up. You probably don’t have much faith in me either. Fear not, with perseverance just about any flaw can be fixed – or covered up. Some of these errors weren’t immediately apparent to me until I began other steps, which is why they weren’t corrected in the first place. (more…)
At the conclusion of Day 1 I was highly anticipating the progress of Day 2. Bre has always made fun of me for my horrible time-estimating skills, and for good reason – I’m never right. Because Day 1 saw so much progress (in my mind, since I was working alone, to get two walls framed up was pretty good), I thought we’d have the entire shell up in 20 days. I was just a little off. (more…)