Flyin' Panels onto the Roof

As of a week ago tomorrow we have all of the walls and the roof panels installed and protected with roof guard. Probably the coolest part about putting on the roof panels was spiking them with these giant harpoonesque hooks that the crane uses to pick them up.

I was very eager to get the roofing paper on so thunderstorms would stop dumping buckets of water in through our roof so we worked all day last Sunday to get the paper on and squared away.We spent this week cleaning up our messes and starting to trim out the panel edges to get ready for installing the metal roofing. The metal roofing will hopefully be going up by the end of this week; at which point it can rain all it pleases and I won't care.

Here are the hooks.

Tom demonstrating smashing a hook in (take it up over your head and swing it like a hammer!)

A roof panel hooked and ready to fly...


Up it goes...

And just because it is cool to see a panel flying through the air.

Here are few more shots of the interior as it sits a the moment. This is taken from our closet on the second floor.

The table saw is sitting where our future stairs will be.


The arched window with the ladder up it is our bathroom window and the shadowed room next to is is our bedroom.


And here is a view of the east side of the house with the roof panels on and the roofing paper peaking out over the top.

Second Floor SIPs go up

Here are a few shots from the Sunday when we put up the 2nd floor SIPs on the North and West walls.

Ross booming Dave up on the Lull.

Tipping up a wall panel.

Closer...

And its up.

Timber Frame is Up, North and West SIPs walls are up

The timber frame finished going up on August 2nd. On Tuesday the 3rd we put up the 1st floor North and West SIPs walls. On Wednesday and Thursday we installed the floor joists and built the floor deck. On Friday we began installing the wood ceiling on top of the timber frame and got ready for the next load of panels. On Sunday we finished the V-match wood ceiling.
Northwest corner of the house, with first floor SIPs up. Tom is standing in the door from the soon-to-be garage into the house.

I was quite pleased to drive the lull (giant 4x4 forklift to move materials and people around. With a 40 beam it is a pretty sweet piece of equipment.

We framed the great room face (south) with 2x6s because there are so many windows it would be inefficient to use SIPs.


Finishing up the V-match ceiling.


Ceiling view from standing in the Kitchen.

Timberframe 1/2 up

Thursday of last week was largely spent solving the complicated framing problem of making the top 7' of the prow. We are just finishing it up here.

The timber frame arrived on site on Friday afternoon. The crew was a guy short so I hopped up on the crane truck and helped unload the posts and beams. Here is a shot of about 1/2 of the pieces laying out on the slab.

When we arrived on site on Saturday morning the first bent was just being raised.

By mid afternoon the second bent was going up.


And my favorite part of this whole endeavor so far has been watching the guys use a giant homemade wooden mallet to "tap" joints into place!


The rest of the timber frame is scheduled to go up today (Monday) and we will begin putting up the SIPs walls on Tuesday.