I'm being Framed!!

There was a couple of weeks between the slab pour and the start of the framing. This was due to not having any power out at the site. I had to have the power company come in and dig 270' of trench and lay in conduit to a service box on the corner of the property. They got this done in one day with a couple of extra conduits for telephone and cable. I spent several day before getting my temporary power pole ready. I showed up at lunch just as they had finished pulling the electrical lines through the conduit. The electrical inspector was also there and signed off on my power pole. Last time I'll ever see a meter read 0.

The first part of the lumber package was the week before Thanksgiving. On Friday after Thanksgiving the framing crew came in and started building. The got a few walls up on the first day and then took the weekend off. Monday they were back. Its amazing how fast walls will go up.

I did have to have them move one wall. I had asked for the bathroom wall in the basement to be moved out so it matched the wall in the master bathroom above. Unfortunately they also moved the laundry room wall too. While a larger laundry room is nice it made it a tight squeeze between the wall and a support post near the stairway. It also made so you walked right into a wall when coming in the garage door. So I had them move that section back over.

Soon they were hanging floor joists for the main floor and then laying down the decking. The decking I got direct from the mill. I sell them product at work and asked my contact if he could help me out. He said yes so Steve and I took a day off work, hitched up the flatbed and drove out to Hoquiam. There I had 75 sheets loaded up, saving myself about $500. That makes up for the higher price for a better grade of framing lumber. Sorry about the night picture but by the time I get home its dark.

After the flooring was laid down they started the main floor wall. After 2 days they had 70% of the walls done but got held up by missing lumber. They had to take a couple days off until the next package arrived on Wednesday (12-5-07). As you can see this is after the big rain storm. Luckily we didn't get as much as some areas but things definitely got wet.

And that brings us up to date. From now on posts will be "live".

Jerome