Month: October 2015

The roof has roofing felt on both sides.  We are ready to start installing the steel roofing.

We worked hard over the weekend and Monday morning to finish enough of the sheathing for the inspection.  The Building Official was impressed by our work.  He said he had driven by and observed the building in process but “didn’t know what to expect.”  It seems he is now on our side and will help us with the process of rehabbing the house!  He knows a way for us to keep the leaded glass windows on the north side second story.

After the inspection we were able to get felt on the east side of the garage.

It is good to rest too!  We rossted brats over hot coals from a bon fire.

We are closing in the garage roof.  Over half of the sheathing is on!  A bigger job than we had anticipated.  We’ve decided to never build from scratch again.  Rehab but not build.  We’ll leave building to the experts.

We used plywood for the exposed overhang.  Steven routed it to give the look of separate boards.  I painted the plywood and the exposed truss boards before we installed the plywood. We used OSB for the rest of the roof.  The exposed truss boards are the same color as the metal roof.

We have a framing inspection on Monday so we worked all weekend to finish installing the sheathing.  One sheath left to cut and install before 10:30 a.m. tomorrow.