Dave and Pam's house
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Phase 3: Wall and roof panels
Click on a photo for a bigger image.Monday August 25
The first "stress-skin" wall panels go up. A "spline" is driven down into a groove between the wall panels, to form a good seal at the seams where two panels meet. Then expanding foam is squirted in.
Here's a close-up of the wall panels.
Each 4'x8' wall panel is a glued-up sandwich of two sheets of OSB
(oriented strand board, also called "chip" board), with several inches
of styrofoam in between. Here you can see a piece of drywall
("blueboard" sheetrock) has been installed over the panel
to the left of the window opening.
Friday August 29
(Morning) All wall panels are in place.
A view from inside shows that it's starting to look like a house.
The first few roof panels are installed. These have OSB on the outside and
sheetrock (no OSB) on the inside. They're just nailed onto the rafters
with long spikes.
The end of the week: one row of small roof panels are in place.
Next week, a crane is used to lift the larger roof panels in place.
Later...
Unfortunately I lost track of time at this point.
The panels are all on, and the roofing felt is on.
Here you can see the layers of the panels...
We can now get a sense of what it will look like from the living room.
Inside, the frame still looks great. Too bad I left that 2x4 in the way...
They've installed some armored electrical cable wherever there needs to
be a ceiling fixture in the cathedral ceiling...
Finally a view of the second floor...
and a view from the second floor.
That's a little 4x4x4 shed for our well pump.
Friday September 12
Then they add normal stud framing for the internal walls.
Thursday September 25
The plumbing has to be a bit creative. These heating pipes will be covered by a wood-framed baseboard later.
Here you can see them popping up through
interior walls to reach the second floor, sneaking around a corner of
the tub/shower unit.
Ahh, the whirlpool...
They laid down a grid of orange plastic tubes that will heat the
basement floor from within (radiant heat).
Friday September 26
Here the basement floor has just been poured, embedding the plastic tubes in 4" of concrete.