Day 19 - 20: Raising the roof.

So today has been cancelled due to snow.  It's really not an issue I was anticipating when we began this venture, but I can't exactly get mad at nature, so we'll move on.

The last few days have been busy and full of heavy lifting.  The first major excitement is that the electrical panels went in to the houses.  The process for getting the house wired up appears to have several more steps than I expected, but one of them involves the largest drill bit I've ever seen on a hand-operated drill.

I know hits hard to see.  Take my word for it, though.  It looks really cool.

Once the tubing and wires were run into the house, the box went in and was hooked up.  The inspector came by on Friday, so here's hoping that we get hooked up to the grid this week and don't' have to run the generator all day anymore.

Preserved for optimum freshness.

The other big news is that the roof is starting to go up.  For the most part, the trusses will be lifted by a crane into place because they are heavy, awkward, and all around no fun. However, silly details like that won't stop us from doing some of them by hand.

Just enough to make it look like we did something.

If you're wondering how we get them up there, the answer is that Jeff is 6'1" and Mike is 6'4".  It kind of looks like a Scooby Do cartoon with Dave playing the role of Scrappy and dangling in the air.  So the roofing has begun, but in order to make things easier for the crane later (a concept that is totally foreign to me.  The crane is supposed to make it easier for US, right?), Jeff and I carried the trusses around to where they need to go.

So. Much. Fun.

Now that we're all officially tired and done carrying heavy things around, we can put up the trusses and then... wait, what!? I have to carry plywood up to them next?  Oh, COME ON!


Later days.


Alex and Linzi.