Long and Productive Day

Today was a very productive day for us. We had all the exterior walls up by the end of yesterday and put up less than half of the sheetrock on the outside of these walls. Today we started right off by going around the house and finishing nailing the plywood around the outside walls. Next, we all worked on building the inside walls and setting up the studs to make the individual rooms. This was a relatively long process with lots of different measurements and cuts.

Before we started working up on the walls, people were spread out between the ground and up on the sub flooring. Now, however, the only place with work was up on the subfloor so it was starting to get a little crowded and not much work for everyone to do. I managed to find some projects to do to keep myself busy and useful.

After the sheetrock was up around the exterior walls, we put Tyvek home wrap around the whole thing. All of the trusses for the roof (30 of them) were laying on the ground below the platform and we had been wondering how we were gonna lift them all up. There is over 12 feet to get them on the platform then another 7-8 feet over the walls, weighing over 100 lbs a piece. Luckily, we found some guys down the street who were operating a crane truck with a 45 foot arm, and we convinced them to help us out for a few hours. Those guys brought the trusses up in about 1/10 of the time that it would've taken us. Thank you!

So the project of setting up the trusses wasnt so simple, but with all the guys we had there we were able to put up and secure almost half of the trusses with all their supports in about 2 hours. Now the whole thing is starting to look like a real house! And I def got a sunburn today too. Oh well, it was in the 60's so I cant complain :-)

Alright we gotta go because dinner is coming real soon!