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Category: Progress
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Metal roofing, porches and sheathing!
It has been a busy month at the home-raising, building the porches, putting up more sheathing, and culminating in the metal roofing being installed! Then, on Nov. 5th, a great crew assembled to install the metal roofing: (L to R) Ben Lyle (our roofing expert from Epstein Custom Homes), Ryan Ingram, Peter Oakley, Jim Fox,…
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We have a roof!
How wonderful to hear raindrops on the roof! A huge thank you goes to Adam Kendrick of Raven Contractors. After helping with the outriggers and fascia boards on Wednesday, Adam returned on Friday with crew member Matt Ellerson. They worked tirelessly to put up the sheathing and waterproof underlayment on the roof. The roof is…
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Outriggers & fascia boards!
Setting up the outriggers, and putting up the fascia boards is difficult, detailed and precise work! Peter Oakley, Richard Epstein, Kent Turner, Adam Kendrick, Kevin Murphy and Maksym Sashkov (George Julius, Ryan Ingram and Bob Dalton, not pictured) were the skilled team of framers that worked in pouring rain to accomplish this job. Great progress…
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Trusses are up!
The trusses were delivered Monday, Nov. 4th, and then on Tuesday… …a fabulous crew from Jade Craftsman Builders, together with our team, put up the trusses! Thank you Dan Neumeyer for this generous donation! Scott, Peter, Richard, Kent, Ray and George were the great team that raised the roof! From vision to reality, with the…
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All the walls are up & we’re ready for trusses!
The terrific crew of Bob Dalton, Richard Epstein, George Julius, Jim Lee, Peter Oakley and Mike Sheneman have now raised all four walls, and built all the interior walls! After the north and south walls, the west wall went up… and then the east wall… and the interior walls! We are ready for trusses… coming…
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First walls are up!
We had our first wall-raising! With the help of many hands, and Bob Dalton’s handy wall jack, we put up the first two walls! First the south wall… and then the north wall. Wow! Thank you, all! Group photo by Dave Meyer
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