Roofing, Wiring, Staining, Raining

Bumper sticker of the week, on Kyle's truck...

Here is a view of Kyle amid scaffold and ladders galore.  He is working up to installing the first long roof panel.

And, here it is!! There will be some metal roof trim over onto the gable fascia board too.  There is lot of trickiness involved in designing and installing standing seam metal roofing that has concealed fasteners, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Here is a photo showing the extra mile Kyle went, with regard to the lower end of each of the standing seams, snipping and folding the steel to box off each ridge.  Looks great!

This is the most up-to-date picture I have (from Kyle, after I left on Friday afternoon) of the roof progress. It includes a view of the first stained cedar siding installed, on the dormer cheek wall!  The dormer trim and cheek wall siding had to be installed before the dormer roofing can be installed.  Some of the trim boards were installed with their faces unstained; they will be stained as soon as it stops showering a bit each day...

While all the roofing progress has been happening on the exterior, much progress has also been made on the interior.  Here is a picture of my dear friend P amid her own ladder grove, as she runs conduit pipe and installs boxes. Then she can pull wiring through the two 120V electrical paths the house/studio/gallery will have.

In a ray of afternoon sunlight, P pre-drills holes to attach 2" x 4" spacers, in order to set boxes away from studs which may be overlapped by interior window trim.

Looking up at the inside of the roof peak, the electrical conduit pipe may be seen. It runs the full length of the house, and curves down at bow and stern to junction boxes that will send wiring into the walls.  The conduit will be exposed, and probably painted.  In the center of the photo the junction box that will hold a chandelier-type of fixture may be seen; the fixture will be centered in the space between the sleeping loft and the storage loft.

One day Kyle worked inside and installed the inside window frames, several of which needed further chiseling by me (and him) to actually fit properly/perfectly.  It was a bit surprising to me that fancy windows like these would not come from the manufacturer fitting properly. But it was clearly (no pun intended) so.

Kyle spent a bit more time indoors that day.  Here he is installing 2" x 4"nailers so the siding nails will have something to be secured into; this needed to be done before the wiring was begun.

Meanwhile, in the studio, various small projects are fussed with.  This is a director's chair that my family gave my grandfather (HFH) years ago.  We had his name lettered on the back; he loved it.  When I decided to build my tiny house I thought of bringing this chair, because it is pretty comfortable for a collapsible chair.  A thrift store find of green chair seat and back, and new (but pesky to install!) swivel floor protector feet, and it is as good as new. 

I did some stain/sealing work; Kyle did a bit too; but the best work so far was done by two friends, E and C, who worked together and did at least eight important trim and siding boards. This put the staining team ahead of Kyle.  We are trying not to hold him up at any point in the puzzle of roofing construction. You go Girls!!! It will be so special to know that pieces of my house were prepared by good friends, who are also artists in their own rights.  Good art vibes.

While C and E were staining in the studio, I was crawling around the loft with another friend, J (not pictured here), who I am hoping to have design a stained glass window or light fixture to go in the finished house.  She has lots of ideas, as do I, but we both feel that the design needs to be uncomplicated and clean, so as not to overwhelm the space.  She plans to use copper foil in the window, and not lead, so the finished product will be lighter.  After J left, E and C reached a stopping point and came out to the house, where E (an avid rock-climber) climbed up into the loft without the ladder!   That is how our workday ended on Saturday, and we closed up the house and helped P clean up the wiring debris and pack up her car, and then parted ways, just as a pelting rain sent down its first drops.