Full House Beats a Pair
We had a full house this weekend! My friend Jason ("The Hammer") came up again, and his brother Justin and Justin's girlfriend Asten came as well. In addition, Pop came back, and Wendy's uncle and aunt came up on Saturday to help out. After a bit of getting everything setup and straightened out, we put them all to work on some random stuff in the morning.
Jay helped me out up on the scaffold to set the rafters in place and secure them, while Justin and Asten helped Pop and Wendy start the gable end framing. Uncle John and Aunt Sandra got to work on putting up the breaker box, meter pan and conduit for the electric service.
After lunch, we started Jason, Justin and Asten on sheathing the end of the house that faces away from the street. We have finally figured out that we should start something new in a spot that isn't as visible, so we can learn without making too funky of a mess. We set them up with some scaffolding, a ladder, a milk jug full of nails and an explanation of how the system works (Which side faces in, which side faces out, the fact that the inside is the finished wall and how to choose boards). We nailed the extra 2x6 onto the existing sill and let them run with it.
They quickly got the hang of what they needed to do and fell into a rhythm with Justin and Asten measuring the sheathing, Jay cutting it to size with the chop saw and then all of them hammering away to put it in place. By the end of the day they had come up with a system of sheathing that allowed them to break the vertical joints for strength and minimize their waste. They had completed over half of the East wall and it looked great! Now we just need the window header and footer in place so they know where to start sheathing again in the window holes.
I was going to work on the peaks after setting the rafters in the morning, but instead ended up spending a lot of my time playing foreman, coordinating everyone else, answering questions and hopping from job to job. Mostly, I was working with Pop and Wendy on window and gable end framing. We finished the bottom of the west end of the gable end. We wrapped it up and headed out to get some food and get rested up for Sunday!
Jay helped me out up on the scaffold to set the rafters in place and secure them, while Justin and Asten helped Pop and Wendy start the gable end framing. Uncle John and Aunt Sandra got to work on putting up the breaker box, meter pan and conduit for the electric service.
After lunch, we started Jason, Justin and Asten on sheathing the end of the house that faces away from the street. We have finally figured out that we should start something new in a spot that isn't as visible, so we can learn without making too funky of a mess. We set them up with some scaffolding, a ladder, a milk jug full of nails and an explanation of how the system works (Which side faces in, which side faces out, the fact that the inside is the finished wall and how to choose boards). We nailed the extra 2x6 onto the existing sill and let them run with it.
They quickly got the hang of what they needed to do and fell into a rhythm with Justin and Asten measuring the sheathing, Jay cutting it to size with the chop saw and then all of them hammering away to put it in place. By the end of the day they had come up with a system of sheathing that allowed them to break the vertical joints for strength and minimize their waste. They had completed over half of the East wall and it looked great! Now we just need the window header and footer in place so they know where to start sheathing again in the window holes.
I was going to work on the peaks after setting the rafters in the morning, but instead ended up spending a lot of my time playing foreman, coordinating everyone else, answering questions and hopping from job to job. Mostly, I was working with Pop and Wendy on window and gable end framing. We finished the bottom of the west end of the gable end. We wrapped it up and headed out to get some food and get rested up for Sunday!
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