[Vodkaman]

Are you sure you didn't pick up the supermarket plans by accident? That is BIG. Very nice too.

[StoneCoal Tackle]

Hey Dave, you had asked about an artist rendering of the finished product. Well this isn't great but here's a scan of a computer image of the super market.......'er I mean house.




Dan, we have all the nailers etc. but mostly use them on large areas of sheathing and we use Paslode gas gun finish nailers for our trim work. All our rough framing is still nailed by hand for better control and precision. I always tell the guys that "rough framing" is just a figure of speech and not to be taken literally, LOL. I say "rough framing makes for rough finishing" so "start neat and keep it neat". Those wood I-Joists actually do have some crown in them but the nice thing about them is they are pretty consistent and a 40' I-Joist is probably not a heavy as a 20' 2X12 timber.

Bruce, those are the same glasses you mentioned and I know what you mean about wearing them over prescription glasses .

Pete, the exterior walls are framed out of 2X6's (actual size 1-1/2" X 5-1/2") and the interior walls are of 2X4's (1-1/2" X 3-1/2"). The headers are made from LVL Microlam beams and the I-Joist floor system rests on treated wood sill plates with OSB (oriented strand board) rim boards. The sub floor is 3/4" tounge and groove "Advantech" which will withstand an amazing ammount of weather without swelling or delaminating. The green wall sheathing is "Zip System" wall sheathing which has a proctective coating that along with taped seams eliminates the need for conventional house wrap. The sub flooring and wall sheathing are both Huber products, check them out at huberwood.com

Well it's been a busy week for us with good progress considering the weather. I'll try to load some pics and post later this weekend.

Thank you guys for your interest in this thread, hope you're still enjoying it.

Daymon

[Vodkaman]

Good job on the rendering, it looks great. I'll take two!

[Spike-A-Pike]

Daymon thanks for sharing your project with us again. I wait to see how it will proceed and find myself looking forward to your progress reports and pictures.

[StoneCoal Tackle]

Well folks, as I said in my last post we had a busy week on the house. Even though we were rained or snowed out a couple times we made some pretty good progress.

Monday was a dreary but happy day . A fellow contractor brought his crane truck and set our beams for us...............



above is the small one (28 footer). Below is a pic of the master bedroom area with it's three 42 foot beams as seen on tuesday prepping for rafters in the snow...........



Tuesday morning started out quite snowy.....................



......could hardly keep the snow off long enough to mark or cut a board!
However by afternoon the sky was clear and we were setting rafters



End of the day brings the full moon rising over newly set rafters...........


Wednesday wasn't as productive with the view of the mountains being "canceled" about 10:30AM and us giving up at lunch time........



It did clear up wednesday night in time to see the total lunar eclipse and on the drive to the mountain top thursday morning this setting moon was pretty cool looking................pic is a little fuzzy but it's the best I could do in the dark.... while driving.......and drinking coffee......and eating a Little Debbie cake .




Thursday was better and the weather held good for the day. We got the rest of our main rafters up and it's starting to look like a house. Still have a long way to go before sheathing, with trimming tails, installing face boards and overhangs, framing skylight openings etc. but we're gaining!



We'll see what next week brings

Later,
Daymon

[outdooradvantage]

Looking real good. Keep up the good work..............

[Spike-A-Pike]

Well Daymon,
That completes my weekend. Thanks again for a great up date. Hope you and the crew have a good week ahead of you.

[StoneCoal Tackle]

It's been awhile but I'm still here, been working long days and I've been out of town for the past three weekends straight so I've not had much time to post. The house is coming along pretty good and is mostly under shingles now. Here's a few pics of our recent progress.

Here the rafter tails are being trimmed.......



.....skylight hole being framed



...building overhangs



Sunny day, lunch on the roof (it was muddy everywhere else), and the Girl Scout cookies are here! Don't get much better than that!


..wringing every bit of light out of the day........



...coming along, dried in with a couple of sun tunnels installed.



And finally some shingles and skylights!



More to come when I get some time.
Hope someone is making lures and fishing!

daymon

[Spike-A-Pike]

Daymon,
I had been wondering if I had missed a posting or if the thread had died; happy to see that production is moving ahead. So, after spending the bulk of the winter outdoors, what's tour opinion on global warming? I know Wisconsin reported a snowfall record for the year, I think it was 80" about 2 weeks ago.

Keep up the good work and as it starts warming up, maybe you can get some craving in during lunch.

Tight Lines

[StoneCoal Tackle]

Hello all, here was the scene at the job site this morning...........



....a foggy spring morning with the red buds in bloom and the leaves beginning to really pop. The sound of a waterfall in the distance and birds chirpping everywhere, pierced
every few minutes by the sound of a
turkey gobbling at the top of his lungs! Don't mind going to work at all on days like this
Again it's been awhile since I've posted any progress but things have been hopping. Lots happening with sub contractors such as the masons working on the two fireplaces.............seen here taking their materials through a window...


.....and here starting to build the firebox on the first floor fireplace.......

.....and the second floor fireplace almost roughed in........



The faces of both fireplaces will be finished with field stone gathered from the local area.
The electricians have been busy too with rough wiring and installing can lights, so we now have lots of light to work by but the drywaller will probably cringe when he walks in and sees a couple hundred cans to cut around .....



The HVAC guys have been busy installing the air handlers and duct work and we expect the drillers to come soon and start drilling the wells for the geo-thermal heating and cooling system. This will be the first house we've built with this type heating/cooling so we're anxious to see it all come together.
We've been busy with some final framing such as roughing in the stairs..



........framing platforms for the bathtubs...



.....adding a more elaborate porch roof than originally planned.......



...and we finally have some windows, 57 of them in fact along with 13 skylights, 2 sun tubes and 3 eight foot sliding patio doors! Quite a bit of glass in this one huh! And some of it's kinda high..........................



Hope everyone is still enjoying this thread. I still haven't built a lure this year and I've yet to go fishing either so this is all I have to contribute right now.

I'll try to throw a few more pics up for ya soon.
Hook a big'un for me,
daymon