The floor has been up and ready for walls for a week, but neighbors kept telling me they wanted a framing party. That meant I had to go around and find out a day convenient to everybody interested. So it’s official: We’re having a framing party at the Lair on Saturday morning.
There’s no rain in the forecast at all between now and then, but taking down the wall siding ahead of time to expose the cabin framing and reclaim the insulation is just asking for an unauthorized thunderstorm. So I’m putting that off till Friday afternoon – late.
But in the meantime I needed to move all those building materials stashed at Landlady’s place to the build site.
That’s all the linear lumber for the frame and the roof support…
…and that’s the wall sheathing. So as not to repeat the mistake I made when building the Lair proper, I actually do have all the final siding, and it actually will be going up in the next couple of weeks. But since I don’t yet have one window or an exterior door – those will be coming weekend after next – there was no point hauling it here from Landlady’s barn where it would only get in the way and risk damage. I also have the roofing, but moving that will require another pair of hands.
So it’s starting to look like the bedroom addition will be enclosed before Monsoon gets properly under way. I’m pleasantly surprised.
Love me a framing party or barn raising! You live in a great NEIGHBORHOOD. Must be like the Twilight Zone, compared to much of the U.S.A.
I’m down to seasonal employ, cannot be there, and I’m not a neighbor, so good luck with the weather!
QHM
That’s nice of your friends to offer this and I hope this turns out to be an uplifting experience. I’m looking forward to seeing the photos.
“An uplifting experience”? “An uplifting experience,” MJR??? Groannnnnnnnnnn.
But yeah, Joel. Very cool. I remember those wall-raising parties. Fairly fondly. Much more fondly than the concrete-block wall-building parties (which never even had a good hot dog and hamburger reward at the end). Hooray for you and your good neighbors.
Are you duplicating the roof line of the Lair or doing a lean to with the roof pitched away from the wall? Latter would be simpler if you have the height to allow for the correct angle to shed water. I don’t think you get snow loads like we do in MI but you do get gully washers.
Wish we were closer to lend a hand on the construction, but good luck with weather and framing.
Terrapod, it’ll be a simple lean-to shed roof. Even remembered the flashing this time.
Claire, I seem to recall we beat up Ian and forced him to take us to town for pizza a time or two…
And with careful planning and removal, the siding from the existing west wall should serve on the new west wall . . . right?
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That was actually the original plan…but I doubt it. I had to chop off the bottom with a recip saw, which came out awfully ragged. Plus I doubt the new window location will match the old one quite that perfectly. I do expect to use some of it to repair some long-standing oopsies in the upper west wall, though.
Gosh is this an invitation to all of us??? Yahoo.
Claire didn’t you know every day around me is pun day? Besides I had just got home from having a big kidney stone taken care of and the meds hadn’t worn off yet. :^)
“I had to chop off the bottom with a recip saw, which came out awfully ragged. ”
Yeah, but the new west wall will be shorter in height than the existing west wall because of the slope in the “lean-to” roofline, so you can trim off the ragged bottom edge . . . right? Worth considering.
Re: kidney stone – youch!
Kentucky: Maybe, possibly. I re-use what I can, and feel sinful when I can’t. But I did get enough siding to do all new if I need to.
“But I did get enough siding to do all new if I need to.”
Considering the logistic trail out there, that was probably good thinking,
Leftovers always come in handy down the road.
. . . and if that siding could be refinished to serve as an interior wall treatment, you could simply leave it in place. All it would cost you would be new insulation for your new exterior walls.
OK, I’m done for now.
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Nope, won’t leave it up because I want access to the framing (and the insulation, which I can’t afford to replace.) But I’ll still be taking it down intact, because at least two sheets can be reused. Very probably for interior siding, if nothing else. I’ve got no problem with interior T1-11.
Thinking of the occasional violent storms there …
You might consider leaving that (newly) interior wall with sheathing and/or siding. I’m no structural engineer, but it seems to me that since the new bedroom is structurally at least partially a lean-to, that original wall should still be treated as a load-bearing member. So that’s an argument for leaving the original structure as intact as possible.
I wish I could show up Saturday to help, but I guess I will just have to buy my own lunch. I am looking forward to the results of tomorrow’s party.