Although I haven’t posted in a few days, I’ve continued working on the house. Jon hasn’t been able to come over to work since last week, but my 
dad helped me three days. I’ll be getting more done today.
Dad and I finished the porch on the west side of the house, putting up the two posts and the 4x6 headers. We also got all of the porch rafters up, including the corner over the root cellar and the corner that over what will be the summer kitchen. It’ll just be porch initially. 
Later, I’ll close it in for the summer kitchen (might only screen it – we haven’t decided yet).
On Tuesday of this week, I brought home some cement board siding. I have some more to bring home. I’d hoped to get it yesterday, but I had to change two tires on the trailer (one did not make it home intact on Tuesday). 
The tires are ready to go now, and I’ve unloaded all of the siding from the trailer.
On Wednesday, Dad and I started installing purlins for the porch roof on the front of the house. After we got going on that, we decided to put up fascia board all the way around. I had some 1x6s that worked great for this. We were able to put up all of the fascia board and get the purlins completed on the front and partially done on the east side.
The plan for today is to continue installing purlins so that we can start getting the metal roof on.
2 comments:
WOW! Amazing! How many days or weeks will it take to get this all done? I'm just curious 'coz I'm planning to build a new house before the end of this year. You think I can make it happen? =)
It'll probably take another four months before we can move in. It's a big job. If it was conventional construction with materials readily at hand, you could build a house by the end of the year if you have the skills and ability (and some help).
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