Week of 1-8-2007

A big week for us as we are finally on site and the house can start to take shape. We ended the week with an all day field trip on site where we sheathed the floor deck and assembled, sheathed, and stood up our first wall.

A television crew came out on Friday the 12th to tape us for the local news.

Scholastic Magazine will be taking pictures of the build this week to feature us on their cover and with a story in their nationally distributed magazine.

An update will be sent on when both of these media pieces can be seen.




Sawing the concrete floor so if it does crack, the cracks will be controlled to crack along these cuts.







Because of Contract Framing,
http://www.contractlumber.com/
part of the Contract Lumber Group, our floor has it's structural floor joists installed.





Floor joists at the end of the day. Enlarge the picture by clicking on it and the caulk that was put on to seal the house is very visible.




An unavoidable gap between the bottom of the band board and the sill plate. If you click to enlarge the picture, you can see the large air gap and the garage two lots away. We put a sealant underneath the entire band board to keep out the leaks and to help insure a high performance house. This detailing is not done in conventional construction.




Typical view of our sealed band board.









Sheathing the floor deck.






Finally our walls are on site. This picture shows the walls being unloaded from a truck whose services were donated by the Reighter Company. The driver, Waldo, was our driver last year when he delivered our garage walls to us from school. See last year's blog at the bottom of the following link. Waldo is on the left.
http://06homebase.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_06homebase_archive.html



Sheathing our first wall after the floor was sheathed.








Lunch!









Group shot at the end of the day of those who stayed late to finish and stand up our first wall.







Long shot of the finished wall on the finished floor deck.