Wow. Weather.

It has been so long since we have had a good rain. After the happy cheering subsided, we hydroplaned home this evening to see if the living room had been converted to a swimming pool. Hayden (who was getting ready for bed) scaled the scaffolding in his briefs, and dubbed himself in an almost eight-year old booming voice, "UNDIE MAN!!!!". He reached the top, did a brief scan for water and declared it dry. Suzan followed up with a flashlight and did a double-check to find that although it sounded bad (wind and rain on the plastic), it was, in fact, dry. So..... let it rain!!!!!

Roof : Closing out a productive week

Today Ken and Fred completed the sheathing, drip-edge, sofit vent installation, ice+weather shield and the cedar fascia board. The windows have been ordered and should come in late next week. A call was put in to the fashion police headquarters to report Ken's scary, high socks but the moment they found out about his other wardrobe malfunction (major undie-revealing rip in the back of his pants) they took pity and did not file a report. Seriously, they have done an amazing job and have accomplished so much this week.
PS: It has also been documented that we have the coolest indoor jungle gym in the county. Do not send safety emails. They're only kids once.

Roof Project : Excellent Progress

Charles joined the team with his framing experience today and worked with Ken and Fred in the [hot] October sun to make significant progress on the roof dormer. It's getting easier to visualize things now. Thanks for your friendship, sharing your valuable time and bringing your willing spirit Charles!!

Framing Begins

So much was accomplished today, including the beginning stages of the dormer and new window framing. Awesome job guys!!

Roof Peak Rip-Out

Well friends, what we have here is a COMMITMENT!
Ken and Fred were busy beavers this morning. And they revealed good new. Turns out, the structural limitations we thought we had were in fact, not limitations at all. The horizontal beam and cross braces were just for the skylight framing, so only ONE mid support will be needed. The main beams are mammoth (thanks to the Canadian specs). All of this will help simplify things, making it easier to work with and giving us the simplistic architecture we really wanted. What a blessing! It will be swell to not have a leaky roof any more.

Team Roof-Raff

Tonight, Scott graciously donated his time, sense of balance and a bit of elbow grease to team up with Ken to rip off the roofing materials in preparation for tomorrow's framing. They were promptly dubbed "Rooff-Raff". Now we have a custom moon roof. OH.... my poor living room!!!!

Planning : Next Steps

Fred came out this evening and walked through the plan of attack for the roof peak rebuild. All systems are GO and some prep work will commence tomorrow evening before Fred comes out to start on the framing on Wednesday.