Roofing

We've spent the last couple of weeks working on the roof to the one-story side of the house. It seems so slow to do detail work when all we want is to be roofed in but... learned the hard way with the studio... some things just have to be done in a certain order or we'll pay later!

So first, we are painting the exposed rafter tails and adding the beadboard to the eave overhangs.

Just the beginning of working with heights, we are finding its a little harder on the east side, where we have the daylight basement. We decided to add some brackets to hold up the outer rafter... intended to be a temporary fix for now but now we like the look and plan on replacing these with some nicer brackets 'in the future'.

We took a break for a walk and a great Fall scene, cottages boarded up for winter except for one hold-out with the wind whipping a lone flag and smoke from the chimney.

We feel lucky to live in such a beautiful place.

And now we've started seeing brackets on cottages all over... I guess we were subconsciously influenced.

We have been fortunate to have Chris and Betsy around to help during the week, handling the measuring, cutting and cleaning on the ground and handing heavy things up to Brad on the ladder (yes, it sounds like they are doing all the hard work). Last weekend, Jim came to help too and they finally placed the last piece of the sheathing on the roof!

A very important milestone... we now have half the house closed in (except for a few holes). And even better, it's like we added an extra room to our tiny house... the kids will have a dry place to run around, play ball and get rid of some extra energy this winter!

Movin' on up!

Last Friday, we started working on the 2nd floor. The kids were sad to have missed the remote controlled lowering of the beams into position (proof that video game practice can be put to a good use). By the end of this weekend, we had half of our roof rafters in place on the one story side!