From Breaking Ground to Raising the Roof
Can you dig it?
It all started on a sunny day in Freeville, NY. We marked our territory and Lily used the shovel to break ground on our building project. After digging the footers, we built the forms for our foundation.
Planning the forms.
Here we set up our construction site in our future common house. With a stretch of the imagination, you can picture a building in this space.
Fancy set up.
Radiant Floor Heating
We attached PEX tubing to the rebar with twisty ties so that we could have hot water running through it in our future concrete slab floor.
Check out our PEX.
Our friends help out!
After installing plumbing, rebar, gravel, PEX tubing and insulation, we were finally ready for the concrete pour! Concrete day was one special day. We worked till dark by the headlight of the tractor and waited for the concrete to cure. And finally, we have our foundation.
Our floor is in!
We dance!
Next came the frame.
Check out our guns!
Our south facing frames that will soon hold our windows.
The wooden frame nearing completion.
Trusses
It take a village to raise a roof.
Our neighbor comes on stilts. Who needs a ladder?
With everyones help, the trusses make it onto the frame.
A view from the west side. It's coming along.
Next we build a yoga studio?
It's shaping up to look like a house.
Lily in the rafters.
Purlins on the trusses.
Roof ready.
The construction of our roof has begun. We have come far from where we started!
October 6, 2009 @ 5:49 pm
wooooowwwwzas! you guys are amazing!!! that is one big strapping building! if I didn’t see the pics, I would have thought you hired some professionals!! very nice. very very nice!