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This has been a milestone week at the house - we have roof! Well we have sheathing on the roof, but I am getting ahead of myself.
Brian was installing roof trusses and outriggers last week, Rob and Hank were at another job doing the same thing, except they had all the scaffolding equipment. Before our roof could be sheathed the fascia boards had to be put up, but that required the scaffolding. Scaffolding and help arrived on Tuesday and we arrived just in time to see the painted fascia boards go up at the front of the house.
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| Brian and Rob putting up the finish facia at the front of the house |
Scaffolding on site, Wednesday the crew began sheathing the roof with 3/4 inch plywood. They also had to finish the fascia at the back of the house, 14 feet above the second story back deck. They began sheathing at the front of the house and were about 80% done at the end of the day.
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Scott, very wisely, taking a photo of the roof sheathing from the ladder and not climbing up on the roof!
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Thursday we arrived on site to hear banging, not hammering, at the back of the house. As the saying goes, "Weld it, grind it, beat it to fit!" What we heard was Hank and Rob placing the rim beam for the primary bedroom deck. This is a big deal because placing the beam meant they could start on the last part of the exterior framing - the soffit over the bedroom deck and the pony wall at the west side. Click on
RENDERINGS and look at the "Exterior from Northwest" rendering to see what I'm talking about. They had also completed the fascia and sheathing of the roof.
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Hank poses over the primary deck rim beam
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Moving scaffolding around, Rob scales the ladder where the stairs will be
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| Roof line at the back, northeast, corner of the deck |
Brian told me a story about how he can always tell from the outside if a house in town was built by his dad. His dad always made a point of mitering the fascia boards so that they meet at a perfect corner instead of a butt-joint. Below, 14 feet above the second story deck, is a continuation of that mark of excellence.
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| LJ Allen mitered fascia corner |
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| Fascia and sheathing complete! |
The roofer wants to get the standing seam metal roof installed next week (bonus! I thought it was the end of the month) so Brian had the HVAC guy come in and cut a hole for the chimney...in our perfectly good roof!
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| Chimney hole in a perfectly good roof |
The roofing crew will be back this weekend to apply the membrane to the sheathing, thereby making the roof waterproof and ready for the metal roof. Lots more stuff went on this week, but this is a roof-specific entry. Lots to clean up this weekend at the house and we'll take more photos as well.
