After watching Karl’s house go up, it kind of makes me jealous. It’s taking me a little longer, ok a lot longer to build mine. I’m doing most of the work myself after my regular job however.
Here are a couple of shots of some “woodworking” that I have been doing over the past few months. The first few are of the front porch. The timbers are 8x8 cypress for the vertical and horizontal posts. The exterior walls of main floor are SIPS. I got the idea for the porch from the guy that is a tech rep for the SIP company that I contracted with. He’s also a timber framer. I decided to put up the timber frame since I have never tackled anything like this before. It took my father-in-law, uncle, brother-in-law and myself a couple of weekends to get the frame up. None of us have ever done anything like this before. It was a real experience! It’s one of those things you’re glad you did but wouldn’t want to do again! The vertical posts are 20’ long the horizontal posts are a little over 11’ each. I did learn that ratchet straps are your friend.
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