Weeks 3 and 4 (10/12/09 and 10/19/09)

After the foundations and block walls were placed last week week 3 saw the walls framed and the roof rafters and roof sheathing installed. This gave us the first sense of the enclosed space we had designed.

 

The joy didn't last long. On Wednesday the contractor discovered that they had set the roof height using a small bathroom window at the back of the house. As they continued to frame the roof around the side and to the front of the house, the top of the new roof (where it connected to our existing walls) would have covered over the lower windows at the front of the house.

After considering a few options during the rainy days at the end of the week (Thursday and Friday) the contractor started Week 4 by tearing off the roof framing and starting over. This week was kind of a drag all around--for the contractor because he was doing re-work and for us because I got a week-long flu bug (likely H1N1). In hindsight, removing and replacing the roof was definitely the best option we considered. By the end the week the contractor had not only re-framed with roof all the way around the side but had also installed the windows. It was starting to feel like a room!