Framing continues. All the strapping and hurricane clips have been done and really main thing left is to do the eaves. The mid-century ranch style of the house has wide (24”) and low eaves (basically at the tops of the windows). This will continue with the addition, although because we’ve gone with 9’ and above ceilings in the back, the eaves will have to be higher to accommodate that. It appears that they’re about 85-90% done with the eave framing. Once they finish that, they should be starting roof decking, putting house-wrap on siding, installing rest of the windows, etc.
We were also a big surprised when we went by this afternoon that they’d removed the old garage doors and put in the beam to provide support for the single double-wide garage door. It’s fair to say that the house is quite open to the elements these days.
New beam for the double garage door
We also had “fun” today with a bunch of moving activity. We were in Rejuvenation a couple of weeks ago and saw a floor model table that we both really liked. It was heavily discounted and really matched what we were looking for so we ended up buying it. It didn’t come with chairs but we have lots of options there so will do that closer to move-in. Because it was a floor display, they wouldn’t deliver it so we had to deal with that ourselves. We had taken Travis’ existing table to the lake this last trip so the plan was to put the new table in his dining room until we move into the new house. The table is slightly too large for his dining room but it will work for now (we haven’t moved any of his chairs to the lake yet, but will do a couple at a time each trip).
Meanwhile, Doug had offered some of his patio furniture to our friend Jean and Travis was giving one of his bedroom headboards to our friend Dan (it’s a queen size and we only plan king beds in the new house). Given we were renting a Home Depot truck we decided to take care of all of that in one day (they charge by the hour). Travis got the clock running when he picked up the truck at Home Depot at 8:52AM and drove to Doug’s where we loaded up the patio furniture. Next stop was Jean’s to drop that off and get it set up in her backyard. Then off to the store to pick up the table. We spent quite some time (30+ minutes) moving the table outside and protecting it with furniture blankets and shrink wrap before getting it loaded up and on our way to Travis’. We squeezed it into his dining room and got it unwrapped and then headed to Dan’s with the headboard. Luckily all of this was relatively close and we were able to get it all done in just over 3 hours. We both reconfirmed that we don’t want to be furniture delivery people as a second career.
