7/25/09 Workday

Another fantastic day for working on the house. It was a bright sunny day, perhaps too bright and sunny for working on the roof, as sun burn and dehydration were rampant for those of us up there. The rest of the crew worked on framing the third floor and finished up second floor framing. All the framing wood first though had to be hauled into the house which took all of us half an hour.
The roof was partially completed the day before by another work crew, so we had to just finish up the front of the house which took a while due to merging the old wood, with arches and elaborate wood carvings which serve as attack venting, with the raised new plywood. After all the plywood was nailed down into the rafters, roofing paper is nailed down in overlapping rows to make a water seal. Roofing professionals will now come in and tar the roof.

The first picture is of the ton of framing we got done on the third floor, while the second is the mostly completed roof with its roofing paper laid out and nailed down. The last picture is of the crew on the deck, looking sharp, looking real sharp.