by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 12, 2004 | HousePosts
Might as well face it, I’m a victim of lluvia… It’s hard to know just yet whether or not this is going to present a problem, but early this AM it was pouring like a bad-boy (or girl, depending on your prefs.) This may mean that the crane can’t...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 9, 2004 | HousePosts
Beam me up Scotty! Things are going slow but sure at the moment. On Thursday a crane will show up to lift two insanely large ridge beams into place. (Engineering overkill if you ask me.) These things are about sixteen inches tall and forty feet long. And in all...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 4, 2004 | HousePosts
Sorry about the dog… Things are progressing nicely. The gable ends will all be sheathed by the end of the day, rafters are being placed and very shortly (meaning sometime around Monday) the crane will come to set the ridge beams. Before you know it it’ll...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 2, 2004 | HousePosts
NOW we’re lookin’ like a house… It doesn’t take much more than this. Add a couple of gable ends and suddenly it starts looking like a real house. It also softened the edges somehow. The framing, while beautiful, still had the house feeling a...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 29, 2004 | HousePosts
Field of streams… Or whatever… Framers returned today. Sunny. High of 85º. Relative humidity of 51%. Needless to say they’re going gangbusters. All interior and exterior second floor walls will be completed by this evening and some sheathing...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 28, 2004 | HousePosts
Promise of rain leaves us high and dry… It looked like rain. In fact it was raining this morning as we climbed out of bed for another day. But it was all a trick of the mind. Nary a drop fell after 9:30 this morning. Nonetheless, the promise of a good drenching...
