Today we got a lot accomplished.  Heathers uncle Paul was still here, so he managed to finish off the last of the interior perimeter walls, and Heathers brother John David and his family were here to help also.

They started out by helping drive nails for the sheathing – we have to drive a nail every 6″ so every bit of help here really counts…it’s reasonably easy work but it sure takes time!

While we were doing that, Heather took the kids to collect firewood for a small fire at the end of the day.

Finally, one of the last tasks that I really needed help with, and that I couldn’t do alone, was lifting the last three headers into place on top of the porch posts.  Yesterday when my cousin Jonathan and I lifted the first three headers into position, he was doing most of the lifting – today, it took four of us to do what he did nearly singlehandedly.

We rounded out an entirely successful day with a small fire and some marshmallow roasting for the kids.

I just wanted to take a moment to really issue a heartfelt thanks to Uncle Paul as well as John David, Danielle, Beatrice and Lionel.  It was really super having the extra help and goes a long way to getting us a weathertight shell!  It’s getting chilly outside in the mornings and with every passing day winter is getting closer.

Thanks for reading and hopefully you enjoyed the pictures!

Yesterday and today Heathers uncle Paul was here again helping us out – he was working on framing up the last of the interior perimeter walls, while Heather and I spent the day putting up the last of the wall sheathing.

This morning, my cousin Jonathan came by with his son Ashton to help us move the picture window and the patio door from where they were temporarily placed, to closer to their final destinations.  They also helped us install three of the LVL headers on top of the porch posts, which will help support the roof.

Tomorrow we expect to have even more help on hand, with  continued assistance from uncle Paul and also expect to have Heathers brother John David and his family around to swing some hammers!  I’ll try and post some more updates end of day tomorrow, hope you enjoyed the pictures and thanks for reading!

Yesterday and today we continued applying more wall sheathing, and today while we were at it, we were joined by our friend Graham who was more than happy to come out and swing the hammer a few times!

We are hoping to start the roof assembly early next week after we finish the remaining bit of sheathing (only one wall left!)

Stay tuned and wish us some good weather to get this done before first frost!

Today was a big day, we got a ton done thanks to Heather’s Uncle Paul and cousin Marguerite stopping through to help out.  I was able to set them to task assembling more of the inside perimeter walls – they got two sections almost completely finished so there are only two more sections left!

While they were doing that, I was busy with Heather assembling the rest of the porch frame and dry fitting the cedar decking to make sure things will go together as expected.

Hope you enjoy the pictures, thanks for reading!

Yesterday we managed to test fit the basement window from my last post, in the actual window frame I built in the opening in the basement wall – it fits really well and is almost perfectly level and plumb, which is great!  Now I can create three more window frames for the other three basement windows, and get those installed and out of the way.

We also nailed up the first three sheets of sheathing on the side of the house, and started assembling the porch frame.  Today we will probably finish the porch frame and do some more sheathing.

Have a good day and thanks for reading!

The past few days we have been continuing to assemble the main floor walls – at this point we are completely done the exterior perimeter walls, now we are about halfway through the interior perimeter walls.

We also received our twenty-four (24) Surrette S-1860 batteries, these monsters weigh about 130lbs each and are filled with acid just to keep you on your toes.  The trucker just dropped them at the end of our driveway on pallets, but as luck would have it, the incredible Wayne from Valley Sanitation showed up to get his digger, and was a huge help to us – we would put a bunch of batteries into the bucket on his digger, and move them from the end of the driveway, the five hundred or so feet back to the house.  Two trips and we’d gotten them all.  Unfortunately did not get any pictures of this, but they would have been classic – me riding in the digger bucket stabilizing the batteries…wild!

Anyway I started to frame up a wall in our basement where we can mount our inverter, and have placed the batteries directly under that on the pallets they came on.  We will enclose them in a sealed box later on, but we’ve at least got them inside out of the elements where it’s cooler, for the time being.

In the next couple days we expect to finish up the walls and start putting on the sheathing – then it’ll really start looking like a house!

Take care, and thanks for reading!

Today we made some more progress, moving bundles of wood into position, and framing up more wall sections.  We had help today from my mother, and my nephew first cousin Ashton – you can see him in a few of the pictures below helping my mother nail down more of our flooring.

Take care and thanks for reading!

Here’s a few pictures of where we are at with the walls – the last wall depicted required some modification from how it was sent due to the fact that I wanted to ensure the window opening for the main floor will line up directly with the window in the basement directly below.  Thankfully the kit house folks were able to advise how to accomplish this, and I should get that wall completely done and up tomorrow!

Also, our triple glazed windows were delivered today by the owner of the kit house company, he drove them up personally from New Hampshire and helped us unload them, for which we are extremely thankful.  We managed not to break any glass (even though the patio door got a lil beat up on the trip).

The other thing I wanted to mention is that we added a new member to our family by adopting a new bunny, we call her Miss Ivy:

Take care and thanks for reading!

Today, Heathers uncle Paul came to help us out, and what a huge help he was!  We managed to finish tacking down all the subfloor sheets, and start working on the walls.

Have a look at the following pictures and let us know what you think:

Thanks for reading and god willing we’ll have some more nice sunny days to keep pushing forward.

Here’s a quick post to show where we got to with the subfloor by the end of the day yesterday: