Thursday arrived and we were not disappointed, the roof trusses went up today...
(note: I added two posts today.. this one and the one before it, so please check out both of them... thanks!)
I took off of work around 11:00 and sat our at the site and took photos and shot a video of the trusses going up. It was pretty cool to watch.
This is the first time we've been at the site while there's been activity going on since way back when they were first digging the hole for the basement.
In the above photo you can begin to see the roof lines taking shape. It's starting to really look like a house now.
In the next series of photos, they're installed a small-ish truss that will live at the entry to the future bonus room.
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| The crane grabbing the truss from the pile on the right |
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| Moving the truss into position |
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| Installing the truss in its new home. |
One of the garage / bonus room trusses being installed is the next photo.
You can find a 3 minute long video shot about this time here at youtube:
You can see how many vehicles are around when there's activity going on.
Here's some photos from inside the house now, with the trusses mostly installed.
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| Trusses over the master bedroom (viewed from upstairs) |
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| ..over the living room (from "overlook" upstairs) |
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| Bonus room trusses over the garage |
Some closer-up views for the exterior of the house with almost all of the trusses in place.
Just before we left today Lyndsey did some exploring and found these items:
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| She dubbed this one her "baby truss" |
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| ..and this is the hole that they'll dump the concrete down for pouring the basement floor |
As I was watching them today I had the chance to talk to two of the concrete guys, who were working in the basement at the same time as the framing crews were installing the roof trusses. They told me that tomorrow (Friday), while the plywood roof sheathing is being installed over the roof trusses, they'll be pouring the basement floor slab.
You can see in the following photo that they poured a portion of the slab beneath what will eventually be the stairway from the garage to the basement (so that they have somewhere stable to place their ladder tomorrow).
They've also poured the portion of the basement slab that's directly beneath what will be the stairway from the first floor down. I can only assume that means that stairway will be built soon as well.
So by the end of the day tomorrow we should have the beginnings of a rooftop and a basement floor slab in the house. The day after that, the slab will be fit for walking on.
Also, in news of our current home, we have our first open house this Sunday since putting the house back on the market. Wish us luck everyone!
Paul
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