More House framing - Getting closer!

The framers continued working on the remainder of the shell, which mainly included the roof sections.  The upper level and the MBR end were trussed and went pretty quick.  The great room and the attached porches/decks were a bit trickier than the trussed sections, so this is a bit slower going.

Here are a few shots of the roof framing work.  There is also a bunch of detail framing that never shows up in pictures:  Things like truss hold-downs and various hangers and brackets that take a good amount of time to install but are critical to the structure.  All that is going on in the background.

Upper level roof trusses 9-25-13

Upper level roof sheathing 9-26-13

Upper level roof and MBR roof sheathed 9-27-13

Great room I-joist rafters, West side 9-30-13

Great room I-joist rafters, Both sides, 9-30-13

Upper level and MBR wing roof waterproofed 10-2-13

Great room roof sheathed and waterproofed 10-3-13.  This was a big push by the crew.  They stayed late, basically until dark, to complete this as major rain was forecasted for that night and the next several days.  The weather did not disappoint as we got probably 3"+ of rain over that time.  We needed the rain, but it made a mess of the site, of course. The deck area needs to be completed on the front and the front entry.  These are the main areas of work coming up.

 Great room from the inside

That is pretty much everything on the house to get us up to date.  The framers expect to finish up main framing in the next week or so, and we can get a final roof on it within about 2 weeks.  Windows arrive around Oct 9 and will get installed as the weather and time permits over the next few weeks.  We are doing the windows, so after framing is done we are pretty much on our own, except for plumbing and a few other things.  I have a few more updates to post in the near future, but then it is going to slow down quite a bit as 1 guy in the evenings plus a friend or two on weekends, cannot get done anywhere near as much as an experienced crew working full days all week. Plus, finish work is always more time consuming than framing and rough work.

We are also now running into the problem of delays adding up and causing trouble as winter is rapidly approaching and it is going to be very hard to get the place weather-tight and insulated and HEATED in time.  If it isn't heated by early Dec, it will be a problem, and that is going to be very hard to do.

I will show a few things completed on the shop next.  That is in finish work stage which is much slower, as noted.