Day 8 House Assembly

Day 8 of House Assembly (Wednesday, 1/10/18)

We're now officially more than a week into the project. Progress is actually looking pretty good. The weather today was cloudy with temperatures in the mid 30s. By the end of the day, we had all the roof joists set and all the walls up. The last (and fifth) truck delivered the last of the Bensonwood order. Fortunately, the ground is still deeply frozen so the truck didn't get stuck. It has warmed up enough that there is now a thin layer of mud everywhere. But I think we all agree that dealing with some mud is better than the exceedingly low temperatures we experienced last week.

There were many large parts in today's truck shipment, which required a bit of planning-on-the-fly to find a place to put everything.

I moved the GoPro to the driveway side of the house today to get a view of the crane operation. Unfortunately, the wide angle camera lens makes everything look small. I couldn't safely get the camera any closer. We start at dawn and stop just before dark.


Rain is forecast to start tomorrow night (Thursday) and continue through Friday. We will start the roof assembly tomorrow and will see how far we get. We're anticipating that part of the structure will be watertight and some of it won't be. Several doors are being delivered tomorrow, so we'll need to find a place where they can be protected from water - possibly in the garage, which has roofing paper installed.

Day 8 End of Day
Day 8 End of Day
Here are some more interesting pictures from the past week.
Post support and retaining spline
Travis and Li, after the sun warmed them up




Robert, Phillip, and Kyle apply a little force to bring two timbers together
The trucks are FULL
The living room beam structure



Greg is searching for the right tool

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