Shit + Fan = Our Nightmare

Oh boy... Where do I even begin?

I worked days the last 2 days while the framers worked tiressly on our house. They have been sheeting the roof in near hurricane strength winds and working weekends to try to catch up from last weeks blast of winter. 

Jake was off the last 2 days so he could be around in case we had any problems with the house, plus our windows were delivered on Monday, yay!! 

Jake has been excellent at sending me photographic updates while I was at work. Greatly appreciated!

Although a picture he sent me today, had me thinking... 

Here's the picture, and then I'll point out the problem. 

Front porch looks great, plywood going up, great! But wait a second... Something doesn't look quite right. 

Have a look at what the front of our house is supposed to look like:

And again, here's what it's actually looking like:

Notice anything missing? Maybe the entire roof?! The pitch is WAY off. Someone f'd up, and f'd up huge. 

So after countless tears, phone calls, texts and emails to my dad, framer and roof truss sales guy at 9pm... All but one of us have determined that things aren't right. 

Have a look from the back:

What it should look like...

And what it actually looks like...

Me, my dad, the framer and the roof guy are all meeting out at the house first thing to play the blame game... This is a game I don't want to win. 

Sunday Funday

After a fun weekend of friends, drinks and food we spent our Sunday morning cleaning up the yard. 

It's just one of the negatives of building your own house, nobody's going to clean up your mess for you!

It actually wasn't too bad. The framers had kept most stuff in piles around the yard so we just carried it up to dump trailer we're borrowing. 

I'm not sure what's wrong with me, but I actually enjoyed doing this. I would way rather play outside in the mud than clean the inside of my actual house. 

It had rained quite a bit the last few days so we also wanted to squeegee off the subfloor. We don't want water sitting on it and saturating the wood. It could cause the subfloor to warp and swell, which could cause problems with our flooring down the road.  

I called dibs on squeegeeing next time. It looked like fun.  Although next time we'll be squeegeeing around more walls! Yay!

The front walls are mostly up! 

The back wall is framed too, can't wait to see it up! Word on the street is that the roof trusses will be on by the end of the week, weather permitting. 

Back wall, framed but not up. 

Roof trusses waiting to go up.

I'm afraid to look at the weather for this week. Since there's nothing I can do to change it, I try not to get too worried about it. I'm just happy that our framers aren't made of sugar and tend to stick out the rainy days. 

It's Framing Men, Hallelujah!

We are moving along right on schedule. Well, our newest schedule. 

Framing started on Monday and is moving pretty quickly!

It will be really nice to see walls instead of having to imagine them. 

Jake and I had mandatory training on Monday, so we weren't around on day 1. It made me a little nervous, but my dad was available if anything went wrong. 

Thankfully everything seemed to go fairly smoothly... We're also thankful that our house is down the road from where we ordered all of our building material because a few things were forgotten. Like nails. Who needs nails to frame a house?!

Knowing we couldn't be there we had arranged for the supplies for day 1 to be delivered on the Friday before and our framer had the most current set of floor plans and the rough opening dimensions for the windows before starting. 

We rushed out to the house after our training day to see the progress, it was getting a little dark, but this was day 1 of framing:

Picture of the back of the house

The back wall was framed. The windows look huge now, I love them!

The load bearing wall next to the stairs was also up because it was needed for the steel beam to be installed the following day. 

As we were leaving the house on Monday night we got a call from our framer. He had noticed that 6 floor trusses weren't made long enough to account for the fireplace sticking out of the back wall. 

Just a small oversight by the truss company, but they fixed it right away. 

This is the plan for the floor trusses that they sent trusses for. Notice the back wall is completely flat?

There should be a few longer trusses to support the fire place, like this:

The trusses were dropped off the next day and all is good!

The steel beams and floor trusses were installed Tuesday/Wednesday:

The subfloor is going down now, glued and screwed to prevent movement and squeaky floors. 

The garage walls are also framed, ready to go up

And even a bit of sheeting is on the back of the house. 

Today we dropped off the saddles for the deck posts and the post should be arriving this afternoon or tomorrow. I can't tell you how excited I am that it's finally looking like a house, and that the weather has been cooperating for the most part. I just want the windows in and the roof on before our first snow storm! November, in Canada... This isn't too much to ask for is it?