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 Last pitch
Dan and Mike framing up the small (but steep) last little bit of roof section over the master bedroom windows, connecting to the front entrance, which is mostly framed up here.
nik Everybody poops.
And when they do it at our house, it goes here, enroute to the septic field.
nik Front entrance grows
Some notches, some giant screws, a lot of grunting, and the front entrance begins to take shape.
nik Looks fine to me.
That new sienna-coloured pressure-treated wood sure looks pretty. This piece was about as strong as wet drywall, but pretty nonetheless.
nik Retaining walls, pour #2
Thankful for some friends showing up randomly at the perfect time as we finished the retaining walls (for the second time) and poured the front veranda piers.
nik Keep the bugs out
Carson sealing in the heat and out the critters.
nik Battle of the bulge
Despite the experts’ and inspector’s opinions, 2×8 studs on 12″ centres can NOT support an 8′ backfill height. In layman’s terms? Double up the studs or be ok with the north wall eventually collapsing.
nik Front-back deck
Directions aside, this was the start to the long process of building the back deck. On the front.
nik Weighty work
Moving these around would have been a lot more difficult without the little tractor that could.