We’ve obviously shied away from a traditionally pitched roof, however one common misconception about the house is that the roof is flat. While it definitely appears that way from the ground, it actually slopes away from the structure at around 2 degrees. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s enough to keep the water moving and ...
We’ve made significant progress in the past week, although the sky opened up on Saturday and I fear the rain may slow us down over the next few days. Regardless, the walls are all up on the second floor and I managed to slip in over the weekend to snap a few pics. I actually visited the ...
With the first floor more or less complete the framers have moved upstairs… however they didn’t get very far without first needing to move the final steel beams into place. I previously described the excavator as being large, but that puppy wasn’t anywhere close to the size and scale of the crane that showed up to move these ...
We had a few false starts, but we finally have walls. We started framing the first floor soon after the garage slab was completed, however we had to put things on hold while we waited for the various steel beams to be manufactured. I must admit, I didn’t have an accurate appreciation for the amount of steel ...
