Second Wednesday

The weather to start this morning was frosty. We even had frost on the windows of our cars. Fortunately it warmed up to around seventy while were working.

Work continued on the roof. It is a hip roof which means that the ends slop out towards the end of the house rather than having two flat sides. We have ready made trusses for everything except the very ends. Creating the framing to hold the ends up in time consuming, but fun.

By the end of the day all of the main trusses were in place and one end was almost complete. A good deal of sheathing was placed on the middle portion of the roof.

We have competed all of the interior walls and the contractors came and began work. This includes the plumbers, electricians and heating and ventilation people. We hope they all finish tomorrow because then we can be inspected and begin the process of sheet rocking the interior.

We finished sheathing three sides of the house and put tyvek on two sides and put in four of the eight windows. We expect to compete the sheathing early tomorrow, and have all of the doors and windows in.

We will then begin putting up the siding. They do not use vinyl down here because unless it is put on perfectly it comes off in their wind. Umcor prefers masonite, but we opted to up grade to hardie plank. It is a cement like product and very durable. It will look wood clapboard when we finish. We plan to paint it before we put it up. Mrs. Pittman has picked a color: Montpelier peach-no kidding. It really is a very pretty color.