Up, Up and Away (the Sheathing remix)
Over all, it was a beautiful, quiet, Indian Summer weekend at the lot. The weather was mostly in the high 60s and 70s (untypical for late October in NY, at 1400 feet) and we had no helpers - Mimi and Pop were just returning from adventures abroad and we hadn't found anyone willing to whitewash the fence with us this weekend. Just as well, as we needed a little us time to just work on the house and enjoy the pace of it.
Friday, I had taken a day off work in anticipation of getting in a long weekend of work. We almost bagged it because of weather reports, but by Friday morning, it looked like the rain and thunderstorms wouldn't come until the afternoon. We worked a half day on sheathing the lofts up to the bottoms of the windows. At lunch time we went out to a local place to grab something, since we forgot our customary lunch meat (leaving mustard and mayo sammiches on the menu). We cleaned up before we left in case, and by the time we finished lunch, the rain had started, so we went shopping instead.
We hit a local bath supply place to see their "showroom" and look for shower enclosures for the main floor bathroom. I think the main floor of our house is as big or bigger than the showroom was, and their prices were fairly outrageous - $515 was their cheapest 36 inch one piece fiberglass shower enclosure. Double that for acrylic. Our next stop was the new Lowes in Colonie, which had the same brand enclosures for half as much, so I think we know where we are getting the shower. We browsed the bath kitchen sink area and found lots of inspiration for our letters to
Santa this year. After doing some much needed restocking of comestibles, we headed home for the day.
Saturday was one of those days where it felt like so little got done - there was a heavy rainstorm on Friday, which wet the floors good and filled the tarp on the roof on one side with water in spots where it hadn't been fully retightened. These bulging sacks of water were leaking slowly, dripping into the inside, and I had to get on a ladder and scaffold and lift them over the little bit of roof sheathing to empty them out. Since the tarp wasn't fully down, as the water cascaded down the sheathing and over the edge it dripped through the sheathing in places, adding to the puddles on the floor. The bigger contributor to the water problem was the water running back in the windows as it ran down the side of the building. Wendy swept the water toward the door, since with all the walls on at floor level there are only two places it can get out - the doors. I also adjusted the tarp so it was tighter and sitting right.
Once we finished cleaning up and then setting up (no sense putting all our tools in a puddle of water), we got to work - Wendy cutting boards she had measured during the week, and me setting to finishing the framing. I got everything cut, measured and assembled while Wendy cut sheathing and filled in some of the loft areas. At that point, I helped her with some of the higher work in sheathing, in the cathedral area of the living room. I am a little crazy in that heights don't bother me much. From time to time I get a little dizzy or feel weird being up there, but generally I have no problem being up high. Once we finished up as high as we felt we could there, I had Wendy help me nail some of the high framing in place while I held it in place and plumb. Once we finished that I was tuckered out and didn't want to be up high anymore, so we called it a day and packed up so we could go have dinner with Grandma Lana and the kiddos.
Sunday we came back early and hit it hard. I finished up all the framing and Wendy got sheathing ready, then we finished sheathing up the front study wall up to the collar ties, using scaffolding, which made it easier to get up higher (to a point). We moved the scaffold to the back and added a level for two purposes - 1) to get the top of the cathedral area sheathed without a handy window hole to work out of in the middle of the wall, and 2) to see if the scaffold would fit under the roof sheathing for our roof sheathing adventure.
What we found was that we could get all the way up the wall with the double high scaffold and that it would just fit under the roof sheathing (between the rafters) if we remove the coupling pins (which are wired in) where it comes closest to the rafter. This will allow us to do most of the roof from the inside. Along with the outriggers we got with our scaffolding, we may be able to do the whole roof from the inside!
All in all a productive weekend - now we just have the peak areas above the loft (and the corner above and around the upper window in the front living room cathedral area) to finish before we start the roof. If all goes well on the extra day this week, we should start sheathing the majority of the roof next Saturday. The plan is to use the scaffold and outriggers from the inside, with some plywood screwed to the scaffold planks to make a nice wide deck to work from once we get off the outriggers.
Friday, I had taken a day off work in anticipation of getting in a long weekend of work. We almost bagged it because of weather reports, but by Friday morning, it looked like the rain and thunderstorms wouldn't come until the afternoon. We worked a half day on sheathing the lofts up to the bottoms of the windows. At lunch time we went out to a local place to grab something, since we forgot our customary lunch meat (leaving mustard and mayo sammiches on the menu). We cleaned up before we left in case, and by the time we finished lunch, the rain had started, so we went shopping instead.
We hit a local bath supply place to see their "showroom" and look for shower enclosures for the main floor bathroom. I think the main floor of our house is as big or bigger than the showroom was, and their prices were fairly outrageous - $515 was their cheapest 36 inch one piece fiberglass shower enclosure. Double that for acrylic. Our next stop was the new Lowes in Colonie, which had the same brand enclosures for half as much, so I think we know where we are getting the shower. We browsed the bath kitchen sink area and found lots of inspiration for our letters to
Santa this year. After doing some much needed restocking of comestibles, we headed home for the day.
Saturday was one of those days where it felt like so little got done - there was a heavy rainstorm on Friday, which wet the floors good and filled the tarp on the roof on one side with water in spots where it hadn't been fully retightened. These bulging sacks of water were leaking slowly, dripping into the inside, and I had to get on a ladder and scaffold and lift them over the little bit of roof sheathing to empty them out. Since the tarp wasn't fully down, as the water cascaded down the sheathing and over the edge it dripped through the sheathing in places, adding to the puddles on the floor. The bigger contributor to the water problem was the water running back in the windows as it ran down the side of the building. Wendy swept the water toward the door, since with all the walls on at floor level there are only two places it can get out - the doors. I also adjusted the tarp so it was tighter and sitting right.
Once we finished cleaning up and then setting up (no sense putting all our tools in a puddle of water), we got to work - Wendy cutting boards she had measured during the week, and me setting to finishing the framing. I got everything cut, measured and assembled while Wendy cut sheathing and filled in some of the loft areas. At that point, I helped her with some of the higher work in sheathing, in the cathedral area of the living room. I am a little crazy in that heights don't bother me much. From time to time I get a little dizzy or feel weird being up there, but generally I have no problem being up high. Once we finished up as high as we felt we could there, I had Wendy help me nail some of the high framing in place while I held it in place and plumb. Once we finished that I was tuckered out and didn't want to be up high anymore, so we called it a day and packed up so we could go have dinner with Grandma Lana and the kiddos.
Sunday we came back early and hit it hard. I finished up all the framing and Wendy got sheathing ready, then we finished sheathing up the front study wall up to the collar ties, using scaffolding, which made it easier to get up higher (to a point). We moved the scaffold to the back and added a level for two purposes - 1) to get the top of the cathedral area sheathed without a handy window hole to work out of in the middle of the wall, and 2) to see if the scaffold would fit under the roof sheathing for our roof sheathing adventure.
What we found was that we could get all the way up the wall with the double high scaffold and that it would just fit under the roof sheathing (between the rafters) if we remove the coupling pins (which are wired in) where it comes closest to the rafter. This will allow us to do most of the roof from the inside. Along with the outriggers we got with our scaffolding, we may be able to do the whole roof from the inside!
All in all a productive weekend - now we just have the peak areas above the loft (and the corner above and around the upper window in the front living room cathedral area) to finish before we start the roof. If all goes well on the extra day this week, we should start sheathing the majority of the roof next Saturday. The plan is to use the scaffold and outriggers from the inside, with some plywood screwed to the scaffold planks to make a nice wide deck to work from once we get off the outriggers.
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