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Dried in! Window framing. Chimney.

So the really big news is from last Friday: the framers completed the plywoodr sheeting, and the roofer came up and got the 'ice & snow' synthetic roof felt down over it.

This is exciting: the roofers will be back in a week or two with metal, but it'll be raining by then. Because the wood is protected, they can go ahead with the metal anyway. Yay!

Monday

The framers continued on to frame out the fancy triangle windows in the front. Wow, it looks good!



You had to be there Monday. By Tuesday it was all covered up with plywood, in preparation for housewrap, which protects the sides of the structure from water through the winter -- or however long until we install windows and siding.

Tuesday

I came up tonight to sleep here for a plumber meeting in Ellensburg tomorrow morning. I used the visit to do a few errands: put diesel in the forklift, move some tools down to the house, and fix up one erroneous hold-down strap before the tyvek covers it.

Then I got down to business preparing the chimney and its support box that has to get fastened into the roof before the roofers add metal.




Nice.

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