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Cranes and Trusses

 


The crane was scheduled for Tuesday so on Monday they got things ready. 


Early Tuesday morning they were cranking. Here's the crane from far away.


The crane in action. 


View of the back dinning room.


Great room with trusses.


Great room as seen from the entry way. 


The upstairs bedrooms were done with this little perch of what became a hallway. This is the "before" so you can appreciate the after. They put the trusses on the upstairs bedrooms over the entryway and you can see that below. 


Trusses over the main living area and some of the trusses over the garage where there is some more living space. The crane was rented for 5 hours on Tuesday and this is what they got done. They will get the crane again this week and they are hoping to be done with the trusses at that point. 


They put up the front, east facing, wall of the hallway.


Same thing from inside the garage.


Back, west facing, wall of the hallway was done.


Starting to push out over the garage. This is looking from over the garage back to the hallway and other bedrooms above the main living space. The trusses in front of the wall were installed without a crane. 


The exterior boards and some of the roofing was in place as well. They have the large timbers in place ready for the front porch as well. 


I'm going to love eating dinner in this dinning room when its all done. 

We also are planning on ordering our fireplace soon. We confirmed what we wanted with our builder and she should be placing the order soon. We are putting in a wood burning 42 inch Ashland Fireplace and in the next few weeks we should be meeting on sight to discuss cabinetry and electrical. 

We also spent a lot of time yesterday at the flooring store trying to decide between engineered hardwood, luxury vinyl tile (LVT) or laminate flooring. After going back and forth and doing some research we think we want to go with laminate. We are going to do tile in all the bathrooms and carpet in all the upstairs area. 

We also spent time in the local Sherwin Williams store and picked our color scheme. We spent about 2 hours going room by room deciding what colors for what walls and cabinets and all that. We did the flooring and paint stuff on our own. With the delays of COVID and all that we want to make sure that none of the delays are because of us and we want to be ready to go when they approach us. We are doing a lot of planning and a lot of waiting around so...hopefully soon we will be getting the windows installed and the other things we've ordered will start arriving. 









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