More Roof!

Well almost all of it really! At least all the joists are up and it's really starting to look like a house!!In the last blog they had put the joists over the back bedrooms. For the front room and kitchen of the house we had to bring in a boom truck and a giant steel beam, which we had to wait 2 weeks to arrive...

Here you can see the boom truck moving the beam into place.

 It's a span of about 30 feet and is where the clear story over the kitchen is and then the dinning room starts, which has a lower celling.

It took a few people to get it set in place, here you can see my new BFF Eric and Larry who is helping with the framing!

Once the beam was all set, stablilized and in place they started on the rest of the joists. This is the roof over the kitchen and living area.

In this picture you can see how the steel beam holds up the roof.

Next they had to add the joists to the lower roof over the dinning room and just outside the dinning room. In these two pictures you can see how the steel beam ends the clear story and then the lower roof. From the inside.

And from the outside.

And here is a pretty good over view of the entire look.

So you can see it's all very exciting now because it's starting to look like a real house!!! There's Pippin working hard in the yard. Not quite sure what he is doing but probably searching for leftover lunch bits from the builders......

Also you can see that our lovely weather has gone to smash and we are well and truly in the rainy season. BLEAH!