Totally Hammered

This weekend we got a lot accomplished, even if it doesn't look like it in the photos. First off, we finished attaching the roof to our new wall. Was that ever a pain in the ass! There was no room to hammer, it was hard to get the pieces in just right and hold them there while we hammered, and if we messed up in our hammering, it was almost impossible to get the nails out because of the low clearance. Still, we managed, and when we removed the supports the house didn't fall down, so we must have done it right.

After dealing with that, I nearly felt the urge to get a different kind of hammered, but sleepiness prevailed.

We also nailed up a bunch of sheathing. The whole east side is sheathed now, and it feels like a real wall. Imagine that - we have a real wall! This weekend we're going to do the south wall, and then we get to put in windows. Hooray!

You'll notice in the photos that we haven't cut out the window sheathing, yet. We will but probably after we get back from Tucson.

The patio door track (we were able to get just the track) is also on its way. It should get here in about 5 weeks. So even if we put in windows, it won't be truly sealed until we get the doors in. I'm looking forward to that.

Last weekend was also the Seattle Home Show, and after a fabulous meal at a ramen shop called Samurai Noodle, we trotted over. We talked to a couple of fireplace people and located the solatube guys. We signed up to get $50 off each solatube as a "Home Show Special," so that will save us some money, which we always like. We also will probably select the fireplace we want in the near future so we can frame for it, but not actually purchase and install it until Labor Day, which is apparently when all the good fireplace sales are. So we'll see how it goes. We'll have other heat by then, which is nice.

Until then, we can look forward to a lot more hammering. This weekend will be our last big hammering push, and then we do the windows and move on to the interior framing. We have some doorways to move and one more structural beam in, and then we can move past the framing and on into the rest of the process.