Sheeting the Roof

I'm getting myself ready to be working on the house every Saturday, but today was a bit of an exception. Matt, Todd, Randy, and Tim put the plywood sheeting on the roof, and Matt told me that I am not allowed on the roof, nor am I allowed to use a saw, which means I couldn't help. So I ran errands while the boys put the sheeting on the roof today, and I brought over lunch and helped pick up random pieces of garbage and wood and swept up. Even though I wasn't much help, the boys got the entire roof sheeted and it is now protected from the coming snow!

I took this picture before they finished putting plywood on the overbuild over the porch. I am going to love having a covered porch to sit and relax on.

View of the east side of the house. The door and window are both in the garage. Again, I took this picture before they finished putting the sheeting on the overbuild over the garage. This did get finished today and the garage is closed in.

Back of the house. Look at how small the wood piles are getting! You can tell how far along a house is by looking at the wood pile. Big pile means not very far along, and little pile means almost done with framing!

West side of the house. The windows are in the master bedroom and master bathroom.

View of the main room inside. You can see where we will have the regular ceiling in the kitchen and the vaulted ceiling in the dining room and family room.

View from the other direction. I LOVE the vault.

View of the tray ceiling in the master bedroom. It feels bigger than it is with the higher ceiling.

We apparently need to put some hangers on the bottom of each of the trusses to connect them to the house even better than they already are, and looking at all those trusses, it's going to be a lot more work!

Trusses in the garage. We tried to keep the trusses as simple as possible to keep the costs down. I can see why the complicated roofs cost so much to build because even building the overbuild over just the garage and porch took more time than doing the entire rest of the roof. 

It is crazy all the little things that end up costing a lot of money. Matt is working on a house with a very specific roof and specialized trusses that took over a month to build, and cost a ton of money. It will take over a week to set the trusses and sheet them, while it took us two days to do ours. Think of all the money they will have to pay in labor costs! I will never look at roofs the same way again!

On Monday, Matt and I are going to pick out our doors and windows so we can start getting everything closed in. Matt has a bunch of smaller projects now that he will work on in whatever order he can. Projects that include: putting ice/water shield on the roof, putting tar paper on the roof, putting hangers on the trusses to connect them to the house/exterior walls, building the stairs and other framing stuff. We are getting into the part where we can get some lights and a heater and work at nights. I feel like the new year is giving me an eye to the end of the house building and the school year! Only five more months of both (hopefully)!