The addition of those rear walls makes all the difference. Now we need a roof and 81 windows installed!
The waterproof stain being applied to the rear deck is just to protect the wood between now and when the membrane and hard surface gets installed.
A little blue sky is nice. Rear dance floor is complete minus the spinning ball, so framing of the tall walls is underway.
The deck covers the entrance to the shop, and I’m planning on adding infrared heaters under the deck along with hot/cold water so I can wash cars in the winter.
The rear deck is starting to take form! I suspect on Monday they will finish the deck joists and move those large glulams for the roof over the deck into place. The deck is a bit over 1000sq ft, so certainly large enough for a BBQ. There are two shots below showing what looking towards and away from Portland look like. Looking towards Portland the bridge you can see is the St. Johns Railroad bridge (actually called Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 5.1).
Small update – Most of the interior walls are finished with the exception of the large two story back walls around the great room. The decking beams will be installed next, as well as floor sheathing for the deck, which will then make building the two remaining tall walls a bit easier. I would guess we are 2-3 weeks from starting roof construction.
.. and a few pictures post Hawaii. Most of the exterior walls on the third floor are now done. Interior walls next, then some shear wall work, then the deck, then the two story tall great room walls.
A few pictures pre Hawaii.. Third floor is making progress.
This is kind of a neat little development board. Raspberry Pi sized, quad-core ARM plus 128 NVidia Maxwell CUDA cores. 472 GFlops in a very small package, perfect for machine learning camera image recognition. I’m thinking about putting one of these with every camera in my new house so I can have continuous object recognition feeding into a central AI.
3rd floor
Interior walls go so much quicker. The floor joists for the 3rd floor were delivered today, so as soon as they get the deck joists installed they can start on the next floor.
I did an overlay merge with one of the picture and the floor plan, and it looks like they built what we designed.
A few more snow days last week plus some really cold and windy days make for hard work, but more walls are coming into form! The shop is mostly complete in terms of framing, with the exception of the small bathroom I added. That will get framed a bit later. The middle level outside walls are getting built now, and the rear deck framing will happen next before doing the two story main level walls.
The windows have also arrived, but are in storage. As soon as we get framing done we will get the windows and the roof on so we can seal things up.
The Glulams for the deck were also delivered. I didn’t notice in the plan that all of the ‘floor joists’ under the deck are 3.5″ x 13.5″ x 22′ glulams. 40 of them. One glulam of that size at 22′ long should support around 320lb/linear foot or a total load of 7000lbs. Given there are 40 of them that is 280,000 lbs of load, which seems like a lot, even with the covered portion. Well engineered I think.