Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The south wall is almost finished

Today David Musser and his helpers, Shane & Adam, came and helped me erect the south wall (actually they did most of the work). Unfortunately we had to correct for the slab being a little uneven all the way down the wall. That's why some of the spacing above the windows and doors looks uneven. That's so when we get the continuous 2" X 12" beam on top of this wall, the wall will be level east to west and ready to receive the trusses. I had miscalculated the size of all the windows and doors so some modifications had to be made on the fly (one of the advantages to having drawn your house plans on a napkin... you just get a fresh napkin). I had to change the double french door in the master bedroom to having just a normal size door with (hopefully) leaded glass at the top (not enough room for the french doors). In the living room I had planned on using 3 side-by-side windows next to the door going out to the (future) deck but we ran out of space and had to eliminate one of the three windows. The (very) large window in the "office" and in the living room are the same as I had originally planned and there is only one window in the bathroom but it's next the the toilet for contemplation purposes.

Looking east from NW corner (the large window is in our office... the double windows used to be three... no room):Looking west from the NE corner (big office window, double living room window, door to (future) deck & big window in the west end of the living room):From below the house looking NW:

No comments: