Framing is great fun to watch--it goes up fast, and in a few weeks you go from having drawings to being able to walk through real enclosure of space. It's like the week after Halloween to an architect: lots of eye candy! Evolutionary Home Builders has been doing their usual stellar job, and I'm going to show the timeline over the last three weeks.
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| First walls up, October 5. Note foundation vapor barrier to be sealed to sheathing later. Also note the advanced framing--single top plate, two stud corners... |
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| ...and insulated headers. |
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| First sheathing, second floor deck, Oct. 16 |
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| Oct. 23: the form is visible! |
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| Interior vistas taking shape as well. |
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| Sheathing on, plywood window bucks going in, Oct. 28 |
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| The sunny side of the house--bedrooms and stairwell. |
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| Sure I'm biased, but I do love the proportion of this...it's the really high quality dark chocolate of eye candy to me... |
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| Since the sheathing is our air barrier, it gets coated with fluid-applied membrane (Prosoco), all the way over the window bucks. Oct. 29 |
Next update will include the overhangs which they're framing now, and most likely the insulation which is going on over the air barrier. Preserving a thermal-bridge-free envelope at overhangs and porch attachments is one of the big challenges when detailing the exterior, and I'll go into some detail on that next post as well.
