A Month of Weekends
Life is busy. Life building a FirstDay Cottage is busier. Blogging the life building the house is probably overload, as evidenced by the occasional lapse in posting that I suffer.
I won't make excuses as to why it didn't happen for the last month (or more really). There have been lots of things that haven't happened in the past month, but what matters most is that building our house isn't one of them. I just want to say I will do my best to stay on target and not become a blog that sits abandoned part way through.
When I miss posting, I often write the entries separately, dated appropriately, for posterity. Now, you can take a look at the last couple of posts and catch up on what we have been doing since April. On to this week's update.
We picked up on the 'back' of the house pretty much where we left off last week. Saturday we finished the first layer of foam and managed to get the second layer of foam up to the third level of scaffold. Before moving on, we took and cut two of our 13 foot scaffold planks in half and added cleats to make five planks that fit one section of scaffold snugly. The cleats keep the planks from shifting and falling off the scaffold. These should make working on the high tower of the scaffold much safer.
Sunday (Happy Mother's Day!) we headed back into the fray, and finished the second layer of foam with the help of the new planks. Cutting and fitting the foam to the angle of the roof ate up a bunch of our time, but shortly after lunch it was all done
We still had some daylight left before we had to go to take Wendy and Grandma Lana out to eat for dinner, so we put in the bottom window on the back of the house. Since the scaffold is up there already, we will put the windows in before we move it around to the front to finish the foam there. We will have to move it back eventually to do the siding, but for now getting the windows in will do.
It's not on the original plans, but we decided to put a window in up at the top on the back of the house, since we plan on covering the collar ties to create a sort of attic area, and decided it would be nice to have some natural light and ventilation up there. We ordered a window for the 'attic' area last week and it should be in sometime this week to pick up. Now if the weather next weekend would only change from the rain they are currently predicting!
I won't make excuses as to why it didn't happen for the last month (or more really). There have been lots of things that haven't happened in the past month, but what matters most is that building our house isn't one of them. I just want to say I will do my best to stay on target and not become a blog that sits abandoned part way through.
When I miss posting, I often write the entries separately, dated appropriately, for posterity. Now, you can take a look at the last couple of posts and catch up on what we have been doing since April. On to this week's update.
We picked up on the 'back' of the house pretty much where we left off last week. Saturday we finished the first layer of foam and managed to get the second layer of foam up to the third level of scaffold. Before moving on, we took and cut two of our 13 foot scaffold planks in half and added cleats to make five planks that fit one section of scaffold snugly. The cleats keep the planks from shifting and falling off the scaffold. These should make working on the high tower of the scaffold much safer.
Sunday (Happy Mother's Day!) we headed back into the fray, and finished the second layer of foam with the help of the new planks. Cutting and fitting the foam to the angle of the roof ate up a bunch of our time, but shortly after lunch it was all done
We still had some daylight left before we had to go to take Wendy and Grandma Lana out to eat for dinner, so we put in the bottom window on the back of the house. Since the scaffold is up there already, we will put the windows in before we move it around to the front to finish the foam there. We will have to move it back eventually to do the siding, but for now getting the windows in will do.
It's not on the original plans, but we decided to put a window in up at the top on the back of the house, since we plan on covering the collar ties to create a sort of attic area, and decided it would be nice to have some natural light and ventilation up there. We ordered a window for the 'attic' area last week and it should be in sometime this week to pick up. Now if the weather next weekend would only change from the rain they are currently predicting!
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