framing

What a long, busy day hanging trusses battling the bitter wind. I’m sure the builders are more than happy that today is over and the roof trusses are all set in place. They started early in the morning by hanging the scissor trusses over the main living area. I think after Read More

There is nothing I could say that would adequately describe how absolutely amazing these photos are. I’ll let the pictures do the speaking for me! Thank you Paul Cyr and Gary Lavaway!   I hope you realize how much this means to me and my family! Read More

Half the Roof Trusses Make It up! Jerry and Mike showed up yesterday morning to make sense of the piles of trusses and get everything ready before the crane showed up .  Nobody really plan on having to do this, but after closer inspection of the piles of trusses it was obvious Read More

What a beautiful day!  Actually think I sunburned my face and got back to work on my sunglass tan! The carpenters finished up the garage and then worked hard preparing for the crane to show up tomorrow.  They spent a good portion of the day doing something I didn’t even Read More

7:40 AM right as the carpenters were showing up Read More

Holy cow that’s a lot of wood is what I thought as I drove up State Street and looked at the gigantic pile of trusses sitting on my front yard.  Even more remarkable is the fact that there was another huge pile sitting in the backyard.  What a roof system, and they’re of so Read More

The weather hasn’t really been our friend this week, but what else can you expect up here in Northern Maine!  We have a beautiful summer with scarcely a moment of bad weather and then we start building a house and the farmers start harvesting their potatoes and it’s Read More

Finding it awfully challenging to concentrate on schoolwork with the house being built throughout the day.  Seems like I want to be right in the middle of everything throughout the day and seldom get what I wanted accomplished during the day.  Not like it’s going to change Read More

The carpenters finished most of the fourth wall on Thursday and then it rained all day on Friday, and we cut some trees this morning to clear out the view towards Big Rock and Aroostook State Park.  A big thank you to Steve Higgins for cutting most of the big stuff! Onto Read More

Missed a bit of the action this morning as mom and I drove to SW Collins in Caribou to pick out some more things for the kitchen and make our final decision on the siding/roof shingles.  We drove out with our mind set on a brown laminated siding that resembled natural cedar, but Read More