Trusses!

[murasaki99]

They put up the trusses today and we had a terrible windstorm right afterward -- it figures. Mother nature is stress-testing everything. The interior of the addition was a malestrom of dirt, pink insulation flocking, dust, lawn debris, bits of tarpaper... ugh! I've got a sand dune in my scalp!

Comments

[linmeister]

Ick! O_o Hopefully you still have a functioning shower! I'm happy to hear that you got good builders who are evidently doing a fine job.

Yay, it's starting to look like a house!

Poor Saki. The kitty pics you posted last time are tres cute, by the way. I was glad to finally see the elusive Sister.

[murasaki99]

Yes, fortunately the shower still works. I'm going to make good use of it today.

The builders have been really nice, I've been leaving them vitamin water in cookies during the day while I'm gone because the weather has been so hot just up until yesterday. When I got home one of the builders had left me a note saying "thank you very much!" With a smiley face at the bottom. :)

Saki is recovering well, which is what his brother did after he had his teeth cleaned. Having a mouthful of little low-grade infections or gum irritation tends to drag down the health on older cats. If your vet asks to clean the teeth on your kitties, go for it before it gets really bad and expensive.

[x_expat]

I think a shower would be in order if I had a sand dune on my scalp. ;) The addition looks even bigger with the walls and trusses up!

[murasaki99]

I still need to get that shower, I've just been too darn busy. :P

You're right, the addition does look bigger with the walls and trusses in place. That's kind of weird, isn't it? It must be how the eye perceives size and volume. Wait till you see the next batch of pictures where they have the sheeting up over the trusses to give me a roofline.

[centaurg]

Contractors do precautionary bracing in case of high winds like you apparently get on a regular basis. Once the plywood sheeting goes on the roof and everythings nailed in place, the braces will come down. I experienced one of those wind storms over in Royal City one very hot summer afternoon during a railroad adventure.

Oh yeah, it's starting to really look like a house!

[murasaki99]

It blew like heck, but come the dawn everything was still standing.I'll be posting pictures in a few minutes of Friday's work -- the structure now has all the plywood sheeting in place and most of the braces have been removed as you have said. It really looks like a house now. :)

[perceval]

wow, really exciting, especially since I know the house as it was before :)

[murasaki99]

"Exciting" is an excellent description. :D The contractor has been very good, but even so, there are moments of sheer terror on my part, just because they are ripping into "my house" -- even though it has to be done, it gives me a twinge now and then. But I'm so happy with how it has been shaping up, much relief to see it looking like I envisioned on paper.

[mincot]

NICE looking!!

[murasaki99]

Thanks! I'm so pleased at how it is turning out.