Day 40 - Forty and Fabulous

It is hard to believe only 40 days have passed since work started on the house.  So much has been accomplished in that time. The picture below was taken when the building envelope was established.

Marking for corner of outside fireplace

And here's a shot of the back view of the outside fireplace area today.

The really big excitement today was the delivery of two enormous beams to provide structural integrity.   These engineered wood products are much stronger than a single piece of wood. In fact, it is probably not possible to get a single piece of wood that size.

Transport truck, beams, and forklift

Look at the size of the beams!!

Another view of the beams

Moving the beams to the structure

After the beams were unloaded from the truck and brought closer the structure, it was quite an operation to put the beams into place.  The framing crew carried these huge beams into the structure by hand!!  Amazing!!!

Building a temporary ledge to rest the beam

Lifting beam to the ledge

Beam resting on ledge

One end of beam on wall header 

Both ends of beam placed across kitchen

Beam on banquette side of kitchen

After the beam was in place, the crew started connecting the kitchen ceiling joists to the beam.

 Framer above Nancy's study looking into the kitchen 

 Framer looking from great room toward kitchen 

View from fireplace wall to kitchen

The end of this exciting day brought friends and neighbors by to visit and to see the progress.  The framing crew boss, Freddy, told us they will be working on Saturday.  So, tune in for another installment this weekend.

Furry Friend of the Day - Redux

Lulu says she is exhausted from all of the house building activity!!