Two Years Running

Hal posted these on Facebook, I thought it would be good to post them here. The end of August 2017, 2018, and 2019.

23 poles in 2017

garage roof up

closing in on final steel walls

We added a roof panel on the front today and another garage door wall panel. The front roof panels are all up now. Just missing a few screws, they are shipping more next week. Still awaiting the final 2 roof panels for the back.

We Managed Some Steel Today

The wind was still strong but from a better direction so we got some garage steel up today. We can only put up one more piece there until some missing F-channel gets delivered. ETA: unknown.

Too Much Wind

We wanted to put up steel on the garage door wall today. We cut and drilled the first piece and even put up some J-channel but with sustained winds over 15 mph and gusts around 30 mph, it was too insane.

normally this grass stands straight up

Instead we installed some base channel along the northeast wall where the wind was almost non-existent as it was coming out of the southwest.

We finally got sick of fighting the wind and quit before 3 pm. Wind forecast doesn't look good till Saturday, 3 days from now.

The North Wall!

We finished the north wall on Thursday afternoon. The trickiest bit we thought would be the tallest piece in the gable center but it was actually the piece to the right of the window. We finally got it in and looking pretty good.

Last wall panel being screwed in

Vanna has nothing on me

inside still waiting on the window to finish the back corner

 After this we went on to the garage wall. I finished putting the soffits up yesterday, and today I finished the housewrap that Hal started yesterday as well. Today he started putting up the F-channel for the garage door jambs. Then he discovered we were missing a piece, we also discovered there isn't enough soffit to finish the rest of the house. Hal has emailed Hansen. They should send the soffit without a problem as they simply miscounted. But the F- channel was listed  on the manifest as correct and we signed for it. We could be screwed in having to pay for that twice. Guess we'll know in a couple of days.

Hal's contribution

 In the next photo you can see the white edges around the smaller garage door, that is the F-channel.

I did the upper portion of house wrap

On a better note, the replacement window should be in around the 3rd of September rather than the 11th.

More Steel

And we keep plugging along. Two more sheets of steel today, the tallest and trickiest pieces. Plus more green house wrap and a bit of J-channel as well as more soffit panels.

Two More Windows

We got two more windows, these are the smallest and are the bathroom windows, and a few pieces of steel installed since the last post. Two pieces of steel were installed today and then we had to quit because the wind was just getting too strong and the next sheet would be nearly 19 feet tall. Don't need to send it sailing.

Today after moving scaffolding

Yesterday, 2 windows

Today, 2nd piece of steel

Yesterday, installing 1st bathroom window

Today, looking from northeast corner

Check Out the Front of the House!

Two sheets of steel make all the difference. As well as moving the scaffolding, of course.

We moved a lot of steel sheets around, too in order to find the next piece for the north side of the house.

3 more Pieces of Steel

We put up 3 more pieces of wall steel today. And did and oopsie on the 4th which will now require us to buy a new one. Fortunately we still have one of the needed size and will hopefully get another one along with a piece of roofing to replace one destroyed in a wind storm last year before winter sets in.

So as of today, this is how it looks. Only 2 more pieces to go on this side of the house.

And I heard from Home Depot, the replacement window and screens should get here around September, 11.

Window Hiccups

So while installing the awning window in the master bedroom last week we discovered it had been damaged in shipping. So the back house wall is at a standstill. Then we discovered the screens for the 2 living room windows were also damage. We suspect they put on one of those metal straps too tight and squashed the window and bent the screens We found a little damage on another window today but chose to live with it. Hal figured arguing with the manufacturer wouldn't be worth it. As we bought the windows through Home Depot they are the ones contacting Anderson. No idea how long this will take.

so close to finishing this side!

crush damage

can't unbend a kink

So we switched to the front gable, which required moving the scaffolding a few times to install the house wrap and the 2 windows plus 2 sheets of steel.

nailing the flashing

It's been too windy the last two days to add more steel but perhaps tomorrow.

Before we started on the front we did have one calm wind day so we were able to install another piece of narrow roofing over the back eave on the bedroom wing.

Another Window

The second and last living room window and 3 pieces of steel.

Next up, the master bedroom awning window.

Cherry Tomatoes

Picked my first cherry tomatoes from the meager garden I planted in Spruce near the house build. Sunsugar. Tasty.

sun sugar

1 gypsy pepper and 3 tomato plants

The garden has sunsugar and black cherry cherry tomatoes, Jet star tomato, yellow zucchini, a green one (I think) and a couple bush pickle cumber plants. Not veyr impressive but I have been busy with the house build after all.

The Front Door Wall is FInished

Three wall panels and the front door is framed in. Looks pretty good to me.

Afterward we prepped another bay on the back wall for the next window.