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For Your Viewing Pleasure

A photo furthermore… There’s a little bit of roof here. Not much. A little bit more on the other side as well. Seems as if the framer showed up late. Not to worry though. My roofer put a goad in his butt. Told him he’d be here first thing tomorrow...

On The Eve of Sheeting

Once more, with feeling… No lie, we’re progressing again. Framers have been on the site for a week solid now and have nearly completed all the roof framing. Currently the only framing left is the connection between the main house and the garage and the...

Talk to the Hand Wife

It’s all about the right call… It’s hard to know how to come up with a good plan of action when no good plan is particularly obvious. So, as we dragged into week 5 of no real movement on the framing front, I tried to come up with something that would...

Heinous Delayness

Progress denied… As I stated last week, the framers walked off the job last Wednesday because one of two partners in the framing crew felt it more important to take a job in Scarsdale rather than to finish what he’d started with me. As it stands at the...

No Mo’ Matco

Time to move to a new frame… Without getting into the insanely outrageous details, suffice to say that my framers, who had done a perfectly wonderful job up until three weeks ago, could no longer hump the lumber, so to speak. It was essentially a matter of two...

Domino Theory

In a house of cards… Yesterday marked two weeks since the crane day rainstorm that put the brakes on framing for a solid two weeks. Today, thankfully, the framing has begun again. At noon the rafters over the garage were being laid in and by the end of the day...

Time Lapse, Schmime Lapse

Well something’s certainly lapsing… Down Load Me! Down Load Me! So… if you’re patient, and can stand to wait a couple of minutes while a 2+ MB file downloads, you’ll have the pleasure of seeing a Time Lapse slideshow of the house being...