Framing nearly done

Today I got a good long work day in. There now remains only one wall and one floor to put down. (I'll probably beef up some of the rest of the flooring but that's all easy stuff. :D So yesterday's total was the wall dividing the bathroom/closet, the closet door wall, and I got that hallway wall with the 2 doors put in place. The master bathroom and small bathroom got their new 3/4 plywood overlay on the floor too. It all came out pretty good. The small bathroom floor came out so tight I had to beat it into place :D. Oh and I got some nice flexible roof seals put on the spots that were leaking where the old vent stacks came out. Didn't need them all and some of the old ones were just leaky, so I did that and sealed all the seams on the roof. That oughta help.

I love beating shit.

Today I'll build the arched door to the master bath and put down the plywood overlay in the boiler room. Then I have to get to town to pay my house payment before the late fee :D . I'm a REAL 'merican, I pay everything dang thing at the last second.

The funny thing yesterday was upon my return from getting materials the whole place was fulla cows. The fellas were driving a herd from one place to another and since this place sat empty for so long they'd gotten used to watering up here. I told 'em that was all just fine and invited them to rest in the shade by the creek. They were real nice.

OK, must be time to get to work. I'll post a pic or two when I get to where there is a real internet connection. We're still fighting that one.

More walls

Fueled up the generator and got a couple more walls built today. One of them is even in place and done. The other one... Crys is gonna help me with it later on. It's a 14 foot preframed wall with two doorways in it. It's a little tough by myself, I got it hauled down the hall and ready to go but that's about the best I could do.

It's been 4 days of hammering walls into place now. I'm a little tired. My parts are a little sore.

I even forgot to get a picture today.

Maybe tomrorrow.

The walls are goin' up

Crys and I finished the wall Christie and I started yesterday. Then we got up two more small ones and a HUGE one. We did a bit of refiguring on the fly on the floor plan. It's a little bit more open and looks like we might even have found a place to put a closet into the bedroom. It's raining out there kinda regular these days so it's all green and pretty. Hard to keep working when the place is a wonderland all by itself.

I'll keep working on walls tomorrow, and we'll finish the floor plan idea and then hopefully Tuesday will be the last day for building walls. Then I can start on electrical. My favorite. :D

Hey, it's better than shoveling mouse shit.

So there are Christie and Autum. They came out today and helped me put up walls. We got the load bearing walls up today which felt really good. Then we got the 2X6's cut for the wet walls in the bathrooms. We assembled on of them and I'll finish nailing it into place tomorrow. Maybe Anthony will make it out again, he's fun too.....

Had to wait till Crystal made it out to decide a couple things. You don't get to build a house every year so it's good to take the time and get it just like you want. Gotta decide where to put doors, how big to make the guest bathroom, left or right hand doors..... all time consuming decisions. I do see the end of removal of stuff in sight. Still pulling out a bit of wall or ceiling here and there because they're in my way.

So tomorrow Crystal and I will work on more wall stuff, Anthony might come out and I always like seeing Mr. Wonderful. We'll see how it goes. For tonight I'm tired.

Denman.......

OUT

Workin on walls

Yesterday was not a work day. I wish it was but I had other crap to do and I did that.

TODAY, I got the rest of the spray foam put in the cracks where I'd closed up the ends of the house. Then I put two walls together on the floor. See.... ya put 'em together on the floor and then slide them in to place. Of course I'll have to jack up the roof to get them in there but I think that'll be fine. I got help tomorrow and perhaps on Sunday as well. It would be nice to get most of the walls in. I foolishly thought I'd get them all done last weekend but there was just too much to get done ahead of the walls for that to happen.

Then we had a really lovely rain today. It only came in where I'd removed vent stacks through the roofing, and that's a good thing.

C'mon tomorrow! Oh and I freecycled my old trailer out there. Someone is coming to get it around 11

Siding

Today was not a bad work day. I got the ends of the house closed in. They've only been open to the elements for 10 years now. So today I cut and applied rigid foam insulation to the walls, then cut and screwed in new siding on top of that. It looks pretty good.... the siding was a little dirty but the rain should wash it off if we ever get any.

Then I carried all the wood inside for framing the walls up next. I found some spare time to hang up two new chair swings down by the creek in the relaxation area. That was about it for the day.

I tired.

It's not all work. We have a beautiful little spot for reading, sleeping, stretching, hiding and relaxing... The colorful hammock is my birthday present. I love it so much...