We have WALLS!

What an exciting past couple weeks. Some delays getting motivated to blog after being ill over Thanksgiving, but it reminded us how thankful we should be for our healthy family over the past 18 months.

Now, on to the exciting stuff. We had a nice pause as we waited for the slab to set up for a week before building walls. We did have a cold spell during the week which required getting out the floor squeegee to clear off rain, ice, and snow for fear of damage to the slab during the cure process. We didn’t get any pictures of that fun. Just imaging 25-30F weather, dark, wet, boots, and sweeping off lots of water.

Framing started the last week of November, but things moved slowly as great care was required for correctly sealing the air barrier with liquid flashing under and both the slab vapor barrier (yellow Stego Wrap) and under the sill plate.

The team quickly got the hang of things and more walls were going up.

It was a slow week due to the temperatures often below freezing, making the liquid flashing harder work with, but the exterior framing did finish by December 1.

The interior walls were next and they didn’t take long once the headers arrived.

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…and thanks to my blogging delays another week went by and we have sheathing up. This was particularly exciting for us as the we could walk through and feel the spaces that had only existed on paper and imaginations, now a beautiful reality. I can’t accurately convey what we felt as we walked around our “house” and knew that what was being accomplished was some culmination of hard work, sweat, blood (many thorns), tears, hundreds of decisions, and a great deal of patience. We also felt confident and encouraged each other that what we were doing was worth while and the many decisions that were made were the correct ones and they were made for the right reasons. Okay, on to the pictures…

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The week ended with a completed set of floor joists and the start of the second level subfloor install.

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