The roof, however, has been rained and snowed on, but it's nearly done.
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Join us as we add onto the Frugal Farmhouse to make room for our growing family. Watch us do the majority of the work ourselves. On a budget.
Addition Timeline
- sorry this is so outdated...
- 1/26 Last door installed, plus knobs and locks on both doors
- 1/12 Supply side of plumbing begun
- 1/1 Last window installed
- 12/29 3 basement windows, DWV system plumbed all the way outside the building
- 12/27 1 more window, some more plumbing
- 12/24 5 more windows installed
- 12/22 first 5 windows installed
- 12/21 windows delivered
- 12/15 working on plumbing
- 12/8 French doors installed
- 11/30-12/1 House wrap done; framing of first floor bathroom and doorway in center wall
- 11/23-24 More walls framed
- 11/23 Roof finished
- 11/17 Stairs finished
- 11/10 Cliff nearly finished south side of roof; trim and drip edge finished; Frugaldad extended existing plumbing vents through new roof and built landing for basement stairs
- 11/8 Cliff finished north valley
- 11/7 Cut stair stringers
- 11/6 Cliff started on north valley; Frugaldad built stair jigs
- 11/3 Cliff started roof work; wove south valley and did lots of trim boards and drip edge; Frugaldad framed and tipped up walls on either side of stair opening. Framed east section of center wall
- 11/1 Moved debris to dumpster, framed east stair wall
- 10/31 cleanup, chalk lines for interior walls
- 10/30 Rafter ties, removed rest of siding from outside of house (inside the addition)
- 10/29 Rafter ties
- 10/27 Rest of sheathing
- 10/26 Clean-up
- 10/22-10/25 Tar paper
- 10/20 Majority of exterior sheathed
- 10/19 Roof trusses and decking installed
- 10/18 Finished top plates of walls
- 10/17 Dumpster and trusses delivered; debris from demo cleaned up
- 10/15 Took off shingles for new roof; tar paper
- 10/13 Tipped up walls; finished subtraction demo
- 10/12 Demo against house for wall placement
- 10/11 Exterior walls all framed, trusses are ordered
- 10/10 Nailed walls together
- 10/9 Built west walls
- 10/8 cut lumber for under window openings
- 10/6 put headers in north and south walls
- 9/30 to 10/5 Business trip
- 9/29 Started framing walls
- 9/28 lumber delivery--studs for framing walls
- 9/26 Floor decking complete
- 9/25 Remainder of joists installed
- 9/22 Concrete shelf completed
- 9/21 4 parts of concrete shelf laid
- 9/18 More joists installed
- 9/17 Majority of floor decking installed
- 9/15 Floor joists positioned and nailed. First course of floor decking nailed down.
- 9/14 Another lumber delivery--floor joists and deck. Rim joists positioned.
- 9/13 Crawl access opening framed
- 9/12 Crawl access cut for HVAC
- 9/8 Load bearing wall finished.
- 9/7 More lumber delivered. Working on building the load bearing wall in basement
- 9/1 Sill plates installed. Grass is growing.
- 8/25 Reseeded lawn over the new drainfield.
- 8/31 First lumber delivered. Started installing sill plates
- 8/21 Saw cuts made in slab
- 8/20 Slab and stem walls poured
- 8/16 Finally passed soil test
- 8/14 Failed soil test again, took a new sample
- 8/10 Failed soil test
- 8/9 Soil sample taken
- 8/7 Backfill completed, forms off walls
- 8/6 Start taking forms off walls, backfill begun, window wells installed
- 8/2 Basement walls poured
- 7/30 Footings poured for basement
- 7/23 Basement location excavated
- 7/20 Demolition of the "subtraction"
- 7/19-7/20 New drain field installed
2 comments:
Wow! It looks so good! I'm still scratching my head at the whole "jig" thing. I would be totally clueless and would have to pay someone to do the whole thing! I'm so excited to see it progress so much! I hope you can get the roof done before the snow's start! Thinking about you lots!
Lisa
Hurray! Looks like it's coming along great!
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