April 13, 2006
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Is that really a ...roofline?
Hey, look at that! A roofline! Not a complete one by any means, but you can start to see how the top of this thing is going to look.
Dmitri the Steel Guy (whom I have not yet met): he appears without warning and vanishes like a phantom, leaving FEMA 2 steel in his wake.
Or making steel vanish.
On his last visit he cut away the now-unneeded diagonal crossbrace in the dining room, added pokey-out nose things to the roofline triangles (see top of black steel triangle over Joy's head, above), and finally installed the steel beam for the middle of the second floor.
...crossbrace used to go from here...
...to there...
...it has vanished as if by magic! (loud smoky shrieking powertool magic, I'm sure)Here's that missing steel beam, now socked nicely into place, and the remaining section of roof joists already atop it:
...from this angle, you can see how it keeps the loft-room from squashing us as we sleep in the master bedroom (which is still in what is known as the pleine aire stage of construction).
Notice Kevin Piero grinning at me? I'm snapping photos left and right as if this was the first earthling habitat ever discovered.Dmitri's crew should be back soonish to install the steel cross-beams for the unusually heavy sloping roof at the front of the house. Someday I hope to catch Phantom Dmitri on film...
Meanwhile, the framing is coming along better and better. Here's Matthew Berry and Matt Corsinita laying the sheeting for the roof and what will be the floor of the loft-room:
The garage apartment is moving more slowly, but the main roofbeam is now in place:
