Day One.... Saturday

Well an exciting beginning to the start of our big week. I got started about 6:30am preparing to tear off the roof. Michael showed up about 7:30 to my surprise and I could not have been more pleased. We got the tear off done by 11:30am thanks to Mom, Dad, Mike, Gardner, Maranda, Jenna, John, Wade, Wells, and Myself. We got a little we about 3/4 of the way through. The weatherman has said rain but we don't have any other options. We took an early lunch and immediately after started putting in the rim joist and finishing the plywood subfloor. It seemed like every hour it would rain a little, but we kept pushing on. I still find it hard to believe no one got hurt. Anyway, with about one small piece of plywood to go the good Lord decided to bless this parched country with a downpour. You can't complain for the rain and the sound of drops in about 50 randomly placed pans, pots, and buckets makes quite soothing music as we lay hunkered down in this blessing of a house. The entire inside is soaked and we have plastic covering anything of value. There are only three places to be right now...under the two dry places in the house or the shower.

Special Delivery

Well we Just got back form Colorado which was proceeded by a trip to Puerto Rico for a mission trip. I have not really done much with the house but get prepared for the demo on Saturday and the rebuild to follow. I got windows, all the framing material, port-a-jon, and a construction dumpster delivered yesterday. I spent a little time today building the headers(overkill per usual) and doing some bracing upstairs so the roof doesn't kill anyone. I am expecting quite a crew on Saturday and also for the following week. wish us luck

Santa Can Kiss Butt

Quite a bit has happened since the last report. I have been to tired and busy to write. We got the subfloor laid upstairs as far as we could reach. The roof is ready to tear off and that task is slated for the 5th of July if any of you are free. This afternoon I tore off both chimneys on the house because they protruded above the new roof line and needed to be torn off anyway. All the wood behind them was rotted. Santa will have a hard time getting in this year. Maranda and her friend Rhonda did their best to assure that the table was full came late summer with their gardening effort. Beans, tomatoes, squash,zucchini,cukes, and a melon or two will be nice.

Stairway To Heaven

I took a short break from the house to add a shed roof to the side of the shop. Hopefully I will get the tractor soon up here so I needed a place to put it. Dad had the metal saved and I had most of the other materials to make this project happen. On another note, I got the stairway done to the second floor. I was able to patch in the floor around it thus completing the second floor system and the rough stairs. I am only a couple weeks out from being ready to tear off the roof. Maranda is finally ready to see some new construction.

Bling Bling

I have always wanted to say I had "Bling" so the best I can do for jewels is these shiny new joist hangars. I tore off the first chimney today so I could run the other side of joists on top of the wall. I am tiring from demolition but it is all worth it when the day concludes with some progress. I am ready to tackle the stairs now and soon will sheet the floor after that. Dad is coming tomorrow to help me put an addition on the shop. Just a mere lean-to but space for the tractor.

New New New

After a stylish pose from our old buddy Dan, it was time to do some more ripping to install the new floor joists in the living room. I had to run a quadruple microlam to support the floor system. It could have been worse but at least I will have a flat ceiling. This go around I wised up an cut out the whole roofing boards instead of just a slot for the joist. As you can see from the photo, 1/2 of the job is done.

Nothing Left

There is nothing left inside...