MORE house!

Well, there is a lot of house this week - because we had a 4 day weekend to work on it!  Lots was accomplished, as you will see...

Shingling! Here we are about 1 hr in.

You can see a shingle there in the foreground - it is around 1000mm x 300mm, and you can see the change in colour where it overlaps to the next shingle.

Each shingle gets 6 nails (big head nails, 'clouts'), certifying them for 110 mph wind.

Both Marvin and I were at it , working on each end of the roof.

I started making the deck frames in my spare time as well...

Almost done on side 1, day 1.  This is about 10am - we started at 6:30am.

Close shot of the flashing, joining to the existing barn wall.

We have ELECTRICITY!  Marvin installed the panel, and since then we have put in some temporary outlets.

I tied up the loose end of framing closets in the bedrooms!

And we now have Central heating/ air conditioning ducting installed under the floor! These are covers to stop building debris falling in the ducts.

All of the digging is now done - we have Water and septic installed.

And, this greets us at the end of each day...

More busy times building frames for the deck (veranda).

Closeup of the edge of the shingles.  They don't bother with gutters here - gutters just catch the snow and ice, freeze up and fall off...

Inside shot of the house to barn interface - flashing on the inside. I don't think water will be running up these sheets of flashing.

We finished the other half of the roof on day 2, and it took us 3/4 of the time of the first side.

And, we have started to erect the decks!  They are just bolted to the house, and propped up by 2x4's on the outside. We don't have posts yet.

Seriously, this is what happens EVERY night after work...

At the end of day 3, we have all the veranda frames up, ready to be decked!