End of the Tree

1/3 of the giant 100 year old Chestnut tree behind our yard fell on the garage on Friday at 6pm. We have had a few wind storms over the past week and must have caused a crack. It caused quite a bit of damage to the garage. Some of the roof sheathing is cracked under the metal roofing, both skylights are destroyed, and the back eave is destroyed. Final bill from insurance is $13,811 including $3800 to remove the tree from our side. It was sad that it fell about 2 weeks after I declared the garage project done.

Doors Refinished

I finally found a few hours over the past few weeks (Raya time) to sand the doors and oil them. Mr. Shumate painted the eave beaded ply for us this week and I installed it today. Almost really done.

Finishing

The drywall was finished this week and I painted the walls and installed the trim.

Table

We wanted a longer/narrower dining table for quite some time. With a baby on the way, we gave up on finding an heirloom quality piece of furniture. We decided to make something simple using a groovy Formica sheet and keep it simple...modern retro to go with the Eames plywood chairs.
Detail showing pattern and walnut edge band.

Insulation/Drywall

Siding Finished

I finished installing the bead board under the eaves .Siding on the north side with 2nd set of French doors.

Roofing

I hired a contractor to do the roof. This will be the only thing except the concrete that we hire someone else to do. Standing seam, snap lock, galvanized steel . I was considering doing this myself also, but after seeing that it has taken 2 guys at least 18 hours to get to here, I am glad I hired it out.

Siding

After changing our minds several times, I decided to use up the 80 year old clear douglas fir siding from the old garage. I had saved it all and removed the nails from demolition. The exterior side was a mess with lots of old flaking paint (probably mostly lead). Since it was rabbited clapboard siding, it could be flipped and turned upside down to make flat face ship lap siding. It looks great after rough sanding it with 40 grit on the random orbital and putting a oil finish on. We may end up painting it after the years make it fade, but it looks nice for now.
The doors are old 4 x 7.5 douglas fir 12 panel pocket doors from the salvage store. They weigh a ton.
We were thinking of shingles in the gable, but kept the shiplap all the way up.


Also have beaded ply under the eaves

Roof

The roof was a simple design of 2 gables, but I had never done a valley before. I took the easy way out and made the intersection on top of the other roof in order to avoid complex rafter framing
Finally, the last of the 22 sheets of plywood.

Framing

Framing is coming along slowly. The 2-3 hours after work are slowed down by tool setup and cleanup.

Garage Foundation

5/4 he backfilled and got ready to pour the slab on Tuesday next week.



5/1 he finished up forms and had the inspector over.He pumped and poured the footings and walls Tuesday and stripped them today.


A view from the back corner of the yard that will soon be behind the garage4.27 he progressed well and did all the layout and started forms.
After much delays from our contractor, he finally got started.

4/25 he started digging with his min-track-hoe.

Skylight

We decided to add a skylight in the second bedroom.Cut the hole on a Friday night at 6pm hoping to get it in before dark.

I got it in just in time before some drizzle came in.

Now there is a surplus of light in the center of the house.

The room is much more bright and plesant.
Finished and painted

Kitchen done?

I finally finished the counter top out of bamboo. The dimension was a few inches more than the 8' panel length so I had to add 3" extensions. It ended up looking good with the edge core showing from all sides. A detail showing the ends, the slate backsplash, and the stainless countertop. A birds eye view of the finished (ha, I still have to grout the backsplash cracks) kitchen. Detail of glass shelves and inside of cabinets