I have rough hands.

After a week back at work on the house, my hands are dry, cracked, and scratched to bits. But if that is what it takes to get this thing done, I can deal with it.

This week we put the addition on that will be the entrance/bathroom/mud room. Of course, we started it on Tuesday and then it proceeded to rain for 2 days. I might add that it hadn't rained for probably 2 weeks and as soon as we put up framing it rains. Go figure. By Friday, Kent had put up the last of the floor joists.

Here is the work we did on Tuesday. A few studs up , top and bottom plates.

Then the rains came and we couldn't get back to it until Friday. Notice the ceiling joists up in this photo.


Rainy weather did make it easy to work inside. We finished installing the floor which is big news. We've had this flooring since January 3. Kent was putting it up little by little, but cold weather and darkness made it hard. Once I had free time, we could work together and really bang it out. It looks great. It still needs to be sanded (though not much) and coated with a protection layer, but that will be done once we get the second floor done.

This is Kent cutting holes in the T-111 so we can extend the flooring outside the main part of the garage. I hope you can tell in this picture that the roof trusses are really low. We had about a foot and half between the floor and the truss, so maneuvering around this stuff was a pain.

Here is Kent peeking out of his newly created opening.
Stay tuned...