Week 4: Waiting for roof trusses

 

The walls are up on the second floor and the old roof is essentially "floating" on the temporary structural braces on the first floor. The new roof system will hopefully be here next week. The weather has not been great, lots of rain and getting colder so it will be great to get the structure closed in.

Met with the builder and architect and we finalized the window schedule. Good thing we went over every single window because we found a couple of cases where the wrong window was in the specs.

Got the bill from the disposal company this week....we are at 15,000 pounds of debris and counting. Fortunately the pace at which the dumpsters are filling up has slowed significantly.

I was able to strip another wall of shingles with the help of a friend. Only two more small walls on the house are left. And then the garage.

 

Although I had hoped I could get away with minimal disruption to the in law apartment on the first floor, it was unavoidable.In the end it for the best since it will make the electrical upgrades easier and it is good to know what is behind the walls.

I'll have another unexpected expense in that it looks like there is moisture coming through some of the concrete blocks. The block work itself is done quite well and everything currently looks solid, but I'll probably have to have the front of the house trenched and have a coating put on the outside of the block work.

At this point I have three unanticipated projects: beefing up the structural members supporting the back roof, having to renovate the in law apartment, and improving the drainage along the front of the house.

 

The guys ripped up the four areas on the first floor where some new structural columns will go. The basement has about two inches of concrete and then some gravel and then sand. The sand was red so I'm not sure where it came from. We don't have red sand in this area.

We didn't quite have enough concrete (20 bags!) to finish all four new footings for the columns. The footings are reinforced with iron bars.

Weather is going to be significantly colder next week. Hope we don't get snowed on!