Workshop weathered in (mostly)

On Monday the roofers finished up the shingles on the detached workshop. This provides us a dry place to put some of the extra building materials we received that same day. All that space inside the workshop filled up pretty quickly with windows and interior wood trim. Since this picture was taken, the house wrap has been put on.



The building inspector signed off on the shear wall for the shop, but kindly pointed out that our building permit did not include the shop. Yikes! I went to the county office today and figured out that this was an oversight when they issued the paperwork, and they corrected it on the spot.

All that is left to do on the shop exterior is to put windows, doors, and siding on. Depending on what Rich and George want to do, we may end up waiting to put the siding on at the same time as the main part of the house. On the interior we need to finish the stairs and stair railings, and electrical work.

Even with all the distractions with the shop, progress continues on the house. A bunch more first floor walls have been completed.

Here is a picture looking at the kitchen from the front of the house. There are 3 windows in front of where our sink will go, with 3 clerestory windows that are placed directly above them. We just figured out that the clerestory windows we received are bigger than the ones we had ordered, so we are getting those replaced.


Here is a picture taken from our future great room, looking into the dining room. Past the dining room is the laundry/pantry. Sitting on the floor is a very large beam which was accidentally cut too short. Even the pros make mistakes sometimes. We have a new beam on order and it should arrive in a week.


With the latest delivery, we were expecting to get the trusses for the garage. Unfortunately, due to some miscommunication between vendors, they did not show up. This has been straightened out, and we will get the trusses soon too.

Now that we are getting deeper into the first floor framing, the framers have noticed some slight differences between our house plan and what's actually physically possible. Most of these differences are related to window/door sizes and placement. So far we've been able to come up with ways to deal with these differences, but it makes me nervous on what other types of things we may have missed when proofing our house plan.

Compared to how smoothly the last few weeks have gone, this week seemed to bring a lot of issues to work out. None of them were a huge deal, but it did remind me that there are a lot of things that can and will go wrong. It's all part of the construction .... fun. Yeah, that's the word I'm looking for. Fun.