Day 139 - VSP on the main floor

The weather has been good (not too hot, no rain) so the crew has been able to make good progress. Today's blog entry has a lot of pictures. BTW, VSP means visible signs of progress (BTW = by the way :^).

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This is the sight that greeted us when we drove up to the site today. There is a lot of lumber there - I presume it will be bolted to the top of the walls in order to provide a way to attach the roof trusses.

Patrick is checking things outside the wall of the great room. The window buck is HUGE! This is actually for the doors and the transom above it. The arches at the top of the window buck are made of three strips of 3/8" plywood laminated together.

For comparison, the ICF walls are 8 courses high, which means they stand about 7'9" above the floor (this is very close to the typical tract house ceiling height.)

This shows the solarium - it is approx 12' x 14'. The feature window in the end of the solarium has the same design as the great room feature window, although on a smaller scale and without a door. The solarium has a sliding patio door on the left side.

Both the great room and the solarium have a cathedral ceiling.


This is a view looking at the porch with the window bucks for the garage stacked at left and the pile of plywood which will be reused for the roof sheathing. Of course this will not be enough for the roof!

If you look a the top of the bucks closely, you can see lots of screws protruding at unusual angles. This is to give the concrete something to grip and hold the window bucks.

In other news.... Tawny is getting braver, but she is still afraid of the ramp and the platform. She went up the ramp numerous times today, and once (when Freda and I were both in the house) made it all the way across the platform to the wall, with her tail wagging furiously. She had a good swim and is now sleeping.

As my mum said about Tawny, "She is such a good dog!"