Author: Daniel

In the next day or two, I hope to put a few more sheathing boards on FRHT – I have a few such boards on hand (evidently, though I computed my needs for 2x6s exactly, I somehow underestimated the sheathing boards, so I’ll need to get more) and then I’ll tarp it for a couple … Continue reading Goals for 2017

September 30, 2017. Mostly over my sickness and VERY eager to get the roof on FRHT. My friend for 25+ years John Early generously volunteers to come up for the weekend and work with me on everything for two solid days. Also shown here, the scaffold I rented… a week ago friday… thinking I would … Continue reading Roof Begins

The router is one of my favorite tools but it sure throws a lot of dust! PPE not optional. This is actually a relatively minor case of router face! Sometimes a full face shield or at least adding a dust mask is required. Continue reading Router Face

September 23, 2017. I’m sick. I was going to be doing a lot of work this weekend, but no. I am moving at 1/3 speed and taking a lot of breaks today. All that actually gets done is correcting a few minor errors relating to the loft joists and installing their decks. This is the … Continue reading Loft Decks

Part of what my friend John Early calls my “way-finding process” with this project involves simply standing in the space, looking at what’s in front of me, and thinking: what is the next thing this space needs? The project is just too big and I have too little experience to be able to visualize the … Continue reading Wayfinding Window

What do you do when you’ve pre-built a frame and made it very secure and sturdy and you realize it is exactly one inch too wide? You realize that you’d actually have to destroy some of the lumber to get it apart and thus, you set it aside as a potential source of smaller (and … Continue reading Rake End

Thanks to 4 solid hours of help from Scott Billups on Sunday, quite a lot got done. Shown here… rafters/joists for the two loft spaces, front and rear walls for the upper level. Also hiding in this photo – lots of little clean-up work, including relocating the doorway to the opposite (left of frame) wall. It turns … Continue reading Second Level Begins

As I check all the things before the helpers arrive, I notice this window opening is too narrow. Oops. Another one of those cases where I changed the window on the plan but failed to update the layout marks on the wood. But it’s all built and locked together. Crap. Actually, this is not a … Continue reading First Level Framing & Raising

The next few photos will seem a little out of sequence with the story line simply because I got ahead of myself while I had a backlog of pictures. Shown here, the deck nearly done when I notice there is some ProtectoWrap missing from around one of the wheel covers. This is very inconvenient, as … Continue reading Tape & Frame

First load of lumber. This will turn into walls soon. Mostly 2x4s (a handful are 10ft for top & bottom plates; the rest are 8ft). Some 2x8s for widow and door headers. Some 2x3s for standoffs/junk/brace/utility. Some 1×4 for wall section bracing to keep them square. I spent 14 hours on FRHT today and there’s … Continue reading A Stack of Wood