Oct. 28th final walls and rafters

After placing the Main Ridge beam with a 45 ft fork lift we lifted the final two side walls into place and plumbed all the walls. Then we worked for about 4 hours and got almost 1/2 of the rafters installed.

Oct. 28th Gable Ends

I got the gable ends built and put up a few days ago. this morning a friend came over with a 45 foot Fork lift and lifted the ridge beam into place. In just a few minutes some of the priests from church will be coming over and putting up the remaining two side walls... Here are the pix..

Oct 14th, 2006

Framing is what I have ben looking forward to. I spent one day building 2 walls and then Kent Grace came over and helped the second day. We also got a few kids over here (6 people in all) to help us lift the walls. Once the walls were up and plumb we lifted the garage header and the large glulam crossing the center of the garage were lifted into place by hand.

Oct 1, 2006

Once the Foundation was poured we removed the forms. Then I rented a bobcat and backfilled the foundation. I had 20 tons of gravel brought in and placed about 4 inches of it over the top of the backfilled foundation. This took one day. Afterwards I hired Oak Canyon Concrete to come in and do the garage floor. I had no experience doing this so passed on this part of the construction. Here are some pictures of these phases of construction.

Sept. 25th, 2006

Once the forms were set I called a couple of friends and had them there for the pouring. We had to use a concrete pump to boom over the house and fence to get to the foundation forms. The pour only took about 10-15 minutes. The Concrete pump really cranks the stuff out. Once the foundation was poured we added foundation bolts to the mud.

Sept. 9th, 2006

After the excavation I set forms and poured the footings. Then we set the forms for the concrete foundation.