The house is coming along splendidly. In May we had 2 weekends off because we went to Carlsbad for a week’s vacation (has Toby posted those photos yet?). For the couple of weeks we worked in May it was Mark and Pop and me doing a lot of the pickup work. Then Kevin came over for the recent 2 weekends and the work flew. We have the skeleton of all the roof completed (I think). In order to get the front roof framed up, we needed to pour some footings for the porch posts. So it was back to dig-dig-digging. We even needed to break out the demoltion hammer and clay spade.
We found many worms as we dug and Lucy liked to hold them when they were all curled up. She walked in the yard for about 20 minutes with one in her hand. However, when they started to move around in her hand she screamed and screamed.
We formed up the new porch as one slab and tied it in to the existing small porch. Jeff the Inspector came by and liked how we set things up and signed off on all the footings on our punch card. He had us drop a tape from the peak of the house to measure the overall height of the building. Apparently, the City was anxious to find out the actual height of the building after the debacle of 14 inches. Pop climbed up on the roof and dropped the tape and the height read 27 feet 6 inches to finished floor. The architect had called out 27 feet 5 1/4 inches. The city was expecting us to have been 28 feet 2 inches. Jeff was pleased and said the city would be pleased to know that we were within 3/4 of an inch of what the architect called out rather than the 14 inches additional height. With an inspection passed, it was time to get the cement poured. The pumpers were a couple of very nice guys who let Max help with getting the cement in place.
While the cementing was going on, the last of the existing roof was being demolished. Poppa’s truck was loaded up to the brim, but we got all the roof debris into one truckload.
With the existing roof gone and the foundations for the porch posts in place, it was time for Kevin to kick the roof framing into high gear.
