They started framing the house today. Finally, we are building our house.
First order of business is to put in the sills.
The sills sit on the top of the foundation wall and hold up the house. You can see in the foreground that the sills are made with two boards. The bottom one is pressure treated lumber so that it will not rot. The top board is regular lumber. The sills are bolted to the foundation wall and nailed together.
Once the sills were in, they started on the floor. One of the first things to go in was that long beam that goes down the length of the house. They started at the South end.
They made sure that none of the boards were warped. You can see in the foreground our builder sighting down one of the boards to make sure it is straight.
Board by board they constructed the beam.
Hey, wait! They aren’t using the Micro-Lam! There it is sitting on the pile. I guess I got that wrong. I wonder where the Micro-Lam goes. (This is why I hired somebody who knows what he is doing to build my house).
Anyway, they built that whole beam from boards all the way to the other end of the house.
In the photo below you can see how long the beam is. The beam is four (4) boards thick.
After the beam was in place, they put in the joists.
Wow! That’s a lot of boards.
The image below is looking toward the street from the floor of the sun room.
The hole in the joists at the left side of the photo is where the stairs go down into the basement from the kitchen. Pretty cool. So I went into the basement to see what that looks like (No, I didn’t go down through that hole because there are no stairs there, and that first step would hurt).
The photo below is looking from the South side of the house toward the garage.
I think the green marks on the footings are where the Lally columns will go… but then… I was wrong about the Micro-Lam too, so….
Looking the other way…
The hole for the stairs is at the top of the photo. I noticed that the pad they poured is not under the hole, so it must be for something other than the stairs.
The holes in the far wall are where the windows will go to provide light in the basement. My workbench will probably go on that left hand wall.
This is starting to look like something.
Walls tomorrow.