Getting darker

After getting all of the main trusses up with the crane, the framers worked on finishing the remaining smaller trusses by hand. Then they continued sheathing on the sides of the house and the roof. They should finished the sheathing this coming week and put the Ice & Water Shield which is the waterproof roofing underlayment. Here are some photos from the last week of progress...

They put up the trusses for the back porch by hand.

The master bedroom

Making the tails for the roof overhang on the back of the house.

A very open feeling great room!

It's getting easier to tell what's what from the front of the house. The big hole in the great room roof will be where the shed dormer is. We are still missing the front porch and stairs to get up to the front door (big hole above the single car garage).

The vaulted ceiling above the back deck with white primed fascia boards.

The great room with the chimney under construction...

The jack and jill side of the house with the sides and roof all sheathed.

The back bedroom

The front bedroom seems much darker with the roof covered, but the 4 windows should let in enough light hopefully.

The jack and jill bath

Check out those nice roof lines!

A little tour of the roof and the chimney...

A pretty sunset from the rooftop!

The double patio doors out of the master bedroom

The big hole in the roof for the shed dormer

The big crane

Here are some photos from a busy day! The trusses were trucked up the hill from Phoenix safely. They were dropped in the street (see the video on the previous post to check it out). The massive crane picked up the trusses (one or two at a time) and placed them on top of the house. The framers moved quickly to secure everything in the right spots. The crane was only there for a few hours in the morning, but the framers were still hard at work at 5 pm today to get everything attached.


They had to move some of the trusses that were on the top of the pile to get to the ones that they wanted to put up first.

Trusses for the roof above the back deck.

The framers wanted the stacks of OSB for the roof placed inside of the house. A pretty quick job for the crane to move the stacks from the delivery truck up to the great room.

The first trusses were put up over the back wall above the stairs.

We unfortunately didn't get to watch the rest of the trusses go up (meetings at work were more important!). The crane was gone by the afternoon and all of the trusses were out of the street. The big gap in the middle of the house isn't all skylight...there are some trusses that have to be hung after they work out the details for the shed dormer and kitchen skylight.