Laurie's World

So the highlight of my day was when Doug and Dion tilted up that first wall of the sunroom—with its four big beautiful window openings–but I am getting ahead of myself…

So let me go back to the beginning of the day when the guys showed up and started banging away finishing up the floor joists on the entrance area…it was about 8:30am, so not too bad. Below is how this looks now…seems like a lot of fuss for 4 feet, but it will really make a world of difference to the inside I think…

BTW the rotten beam is all going to be replaced anyway due to the hip on the roof having to be shifted because we are extending the front out by two feet and not the side, so the angle will be different therefore the whole thing gets redone anyway…so no biggie there. Just throwing throwing this out there in case anyone is losing sleep thinking I had some real problems here…

They worked away for a couple of hours getting everything lined up and then the inspector came by. I think he was over 7 feet tall. He basically finished up with Doug before I could even get out there, and the only comment he had was that the guys were wondering when i was going to open the pool for them…Hmmm…may not happen! He also very chatty about the Dec storm…so apparently we have nothing holding us back from full on framing now!

Doug and Dion got busy with the walls of the sunroom…they framed it out and lifted it up….had to call in my guy (Troy) to help them lift it up. They did not ask me–which is kinda weird–‘cuz anyone who knows us knows I am stronger than TroyThe one little hiccup today was Andrew discovered when they started to rip off the siding that our home currently has 2×4 outer wall framing NOT 2×6 (whiich is today’s code requirement-and also what the plans were drawn to require) SO we have to fur the walls (Hey—who knows what that means?–maybe I won’t tell you until tomorrow to keep you tuning in!!)

So this is how the place looks now…The room feels great…bigger than I thought it would…There are going to be 4 3×5 windows across the back and 4 2×2 skylights across the top. So this room will have lots of sun–thus the sunroom title.They are going to be cranking through the rest of the walls in a couple of days.

Apparently the beam is coming on Wednesday. It needs some welding when it gets here so that will take a day or so. The trusses won’t come until Monday or maybe Tuesday, so the plan is to wait until the trusses come and use that delivery boom truck to help install the beam in stead of renting another crane or something…sounds logical to me! BUT that is when they rip off the roof, back walls etc–so that is when it gets REALLY exciting!

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