What a weekend. We fully broke into the roof this past weekend, removing about 1/4 of the total roof.
We did a run to the Santa Barbara dump with 3200 pounds of roofing debris (truck load and trailer load).
The attic insulation is the ‘blown in’ insulation that is basically shredded paper stuff. It is very messy to work around and made a mess inside the house in the couple of places where we (ok, I) stepped through the drywall.
At the end of the weekend, we had about 20 feet of floor joists in place treads on the stairs. So now we don’t have stairs to nowhere we have stairs to the outside.
NOTES: We found out this weekend that our overall length of new construction is 5 feet longer than what is drawn on the plans. This includes the 3 feet of existing house that we discovered a couple of weeks ago. The existing house is 3 feet longer than the measurements shown in the plans. So this week, my job (one of my jobs) is to measure out all the posts that are attached to the foundation and get an accurate set of plans. Toby and I spent about an hour stretching tape on Sunday. It always seems like no matter how much thought we put into some things, it always seems like we didn’t do it right. In particular I am thinking about how our lumber is stacked. We spent some time trying to arrange the lumber with the soonest-to-be-used lumber on the top of the piles but we have had to dig quite often. 95% of our 2x12s are at the bottom of the lumber pile. However, God in his mercy gave us about a dozen and a half 2x12s that were easily accessible this past weekend, so Greg didn’t have to wait for lumber. But now it is time to dig down to the rest of the 2x12s.