Housewrap 2

Today DH and HD finished putting the housewrap on the house. For some reason, adding the housewrap made the house look ENORMOUS!

Unfortunately, this will probably be the last update for a while. Winter has hit and money has run out for now. The perils of building a house without a loan. Rest assured, we'll be back in the new year with plenty more updates though. They'll come lightning fast too. Why? We're expecting to be done building and moved in by June 2013! That's 6 months away!

HD and DH putting the wrap on the peak of the house. Those are not short ladders either.

Housewrap 1

Today, DH and HD started putting the housewrap on the house. We decided to go with EasyGard instead of Tyvek. Cost is one issue, and from all our research it's comparable to Tyvek. DH said it went on very easily once they figured out exactly how to do it. The parts you'll see done only took them about 3 hours to do! That's amazing! Tomorrow, they're going to do up in the eaves and the small band underneath the fascia. They are confident they'll be able to get the house fully wrapped by the end of the day tomorrow.

Before/Currently

Pics of the housewrap on the house. 

 The house from the neighbor's yard. This is a side you won't normally see.

 The side of the house facing the garage

 The side of the house you normally see. 

The front of the house.

Shingles are done!

Woo hoo. Today DH finished putting the shingles on the house's roof. All that's left to do there is put the ridge vent on. Yay! Tomorrow, we start tearing off the garage's roof so that it can be replaced. Yay!

 See. Aren't they beautiful?

 DH hard at work putting the shingles on.

Tada! The shingles are complete! (As you can see, the sides of the house are all sheathed as well.)

So, the next few weeks will be busy. Tearoff/replacement of the garage roof, then housewrap for the house. After that, we'll likely have little done, as we're running out of money right now. Layoffs and hour reductions are hitting us hard. Once the spring gets here though, we'll be going all out to finish this! That's the price of building with no loan though. Sometimes you run out of money. :)

Roof: Part 2

Once again, the weather is against us. DH and MD were able to get a few hours in. Long enough to get the plywood on the other side of the roof. Next available day to work, they are going to put on ice shield and tar paper the side they just finished sheathing. After that comes shingles! Woo hoo.

Roof: Part 1

Yep. Part 1. DH's work schedule, MD's work schedule, and the weather just refuse to cooperate with each other. Because of this, we're only able to work a few hours 1 day a week. Sometimes, we get lucky and we get TWO days for a few hours.

Anyway, we've been able to get half the roof's plywood and tar paper on. The next sunny day MD is hoping that he and DH will be able to get the other half on.

 DH and MD putting the plywood up on the rafters.

 Almost done with the one half!

 This is the front of the house.

 My Dad up in the rafters. 

See. Sheathed and tar papered.

The trusses are on!

Today, MD, HD, and I raised the trusses for the roof. DH helped after he got off of work. It was definitely an entertaining experience. (This post will be picture intensive. You've been warned.)

 The first truss being attached to the lift.

 There it goes! Up into the air.

 Being lowered into place.

 First truss set and tacked into place. If you look to the far right above the ladder, you can see where we braced it by nailing it to a board that was attached to the garage.

 Several of the trusses up.

 A pic of hubby's Dad up in the trusses attaching crossbeams.

 Setting the last truss on!

 Hubby and his Dad up in the trusses attaching some bracing boards.

All done! It looks like a house now! Because of rain, we'll be taking a few days off. Next step after is to add the plywood sheating to both the roof and the walls.

We've got wood!

Today was our first shipment of wood! It's just enough to do the floor deck and build the main frame for the walls. More wood will be delivered soon. The trusses are supposed to be delivered in 2 weeks, so we've got a LOT of work to do between now and then.