HOME BUILDING
Posts about posts! And holes and studs and timbers and all of the various pieces that make a house a place to live as opposed to an ominous pile of materials a truck drops off beside a big hole.
nik Rear dormer in one of the kids’ rooms. The two top floor bedrooms are identical.
nik We’ve got the power! Well, we have some power poles, which is a start.
nik Time to head home. I’ve been telling the kids “home is where the dog is right now.”
nik A pile of trusses up, posts poured and back filled, and some more wall sheathing up. If you look closely you can see the mammoth rock in the path of the right side retaining wall that has been drilled out with rebar epoxied into it (same with the slightly-leaning sonotube pier on the rock). It’s […]
nik A big day for progress on the roof, thanks to some hard work by the neighbour crew.
nik Trying to line up the concrete sonotube piers for the deck. Kind of important to get this as close as possible as they go all the way up and tie into the roof!
nik Because our timber posts are oversized, ranging from 8×8 to 12×12″, we are using some threaded anchors with j’s plunged into the concrete sonotubes as opposed to premade collars.
nik The whole crew was ready, but it turned out to be a rain day 🙁