Raising the Roof Part 3 - The Anti-climactic Finish and Other Things

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When last we wrote the roofing materials were perched atop the roof. Then it rained, then the sun came out and still no roofers. Then it rained again and the sun came out and still, the roofing materials sat on the roof. The roof membrane was in place so the interior of the house was thankfully mostly dry. 

Then one day, miraculously, the roofers showed up and installed the roofing material and most of the flashing/facia panels. So close...the roof panels and three sides of the facia panels in place, it was apparently quitting time, the west side facia panel not complete. Honestly we don't know if they were awaiting more material or if it was PBR time.

Meanwhile, Brian and crew kept at it inside the house. Brian had pre-painted the soffit panels and put up the panels at the back of the house, 14 feet above the second story deck.

They moved the windows and sliding glass doors to the house from offsite storage and began installing them. It's amazing the improvement to the view when you're looking at it from inside a window on a blustery day. The stairwell walls/rail was built and the beginnings of a fireplace began to emerge.

Garage picture window

Window in Scott's den/2nd bedroom on the first floor

Kitchen windows, installed, and transom windows to be installed over the living room sliding glass doors

Stairwell window and wall/railing

Stairwell railing at the second floor

Brian planes the rim of the deck in anticipation of the final finish material - ipe

And then suddenly one day, the roof is complete! The roofer onsite to wrap and heat seal the second floor deck rim in the same membrane used on the deck surface.

Roof complete! Anticlimactic, but...

Membrane wrapped, but not yet sealed, around the second story deck rim

And the fireplace base - above this will be metal studs surrounding the fireplace itself 

Brian also cleaned out and prepped the garage for the concrete pour on Thursday. 

In addition to the garage, they will pour the floor of the firewood storage at the front of the house and the pad for the heat pump unit for our heating and cooling system behind the garage. Stay tuned...