Last week

Most of the windows are in. House is wrapped in Tyvek, reading for siding and roof is ready for steel galvalume roof. Also the frame for the deck on the south side of the house is up now, ready for planking and temporary rail.

This coming week the rest of the windows and exterior doors go in, and perhaps deck floor. Also Tuck is preparing to move a small travel trailer to the site so he doesn't have to drive back and forth so often.  Its an old Layton travel trailer he found on ebay - 70s harvest gold decor but very serviceable. We'll be selling it after the house is done if anyone is interested.

Openings, May 21

Window and Doors openings complete.

Window and Door Openings

As you may have noticed, the SIPS walls go up solid so openings for windows and doors have to be cut. This happened last week, in between some wicked thunderstorms, possibly including hail we hear.  These shots are from the inside -- kitchen and living/dining room.

Well

While the roof was being finished, the well folks showed up. 425 feet later we have water! and grateful it wasn't much deeper. Here's a shot of the drilling operation. 

Roof on

So here it is w/roof panels on, most of the eaves done, and tar paper. Ready for the next step -- cutting the openings for windows and doors, then wrapping the house in tyvek. The image with the wood pile is looking from the southwest, and the other is looking from the north at what will be the front entrance to the breezeway.

Roof panels

Next it was the roof panels which are about 10 inches thick. 

Walls Up

Here's a shot of the wall panels in place before the roof panels. This is the south side of the house where there will be a deck eventually over the basement. You can see the door to the walkout basement/crawl space. The breezeway is in the middle. 

Walls Going Up

On May 3-6 approximately Victor (our contractor for this phase) and his crew put up the SIPS wall panels and roof panels. 

The structural insulated panels (SIPS) arrived Thursday morning. The delivery truck could not make the turn onto Willow Rock Road, so the panels had to be unloaded there and carried up to the job site. See pictures.

From footers to roof

Events have proceeded fairly on schedule since the footers were poured. Delayed slightly by a heavy rain but not too much. The foundation and subfloor are now complete, and approved by inspector (in orange shorts - yes, the house is in Orange County).

You can also see how quickly spring has sprung here in the last couple of weeks.