HEADERS AND TRUSSES AND JACK STUDS OH MY!

What a busy 10 days! As we were doing the demolition in the older part of the house we discovered that two of the three 2x4 walls we were going to retain needed to be replaced as well as some of the trusses and sheeting on the existing roof. Our original plan was to fur out the 2x4 walls to match the new 2x6 walls but the damage to two of those walls was too extensive and they needed to be replaced. This created yet another engineering challenge as we had to support the existing roof on two sides in a manner that would allow us to knock out two walls, put in the sub floor, build two new walls and place them. We elected to use a combination of interior and exterior supports to actually raise the height of the existing roof and build the longer of the two walls in two sections then do the second wall. The small original wall that would remain was supported in place with exterior supports. Doing all of this only added about three days to our schedule and was so worth the effort! So now all but one of the walls is new 2x6 and only one small wall will need to be furred out.

The New Walls In Place and Existing Roof Lowered back In Place And All the Headers and Trimmers In:


All of the headers, jack studs, top plate and sub floor is in and the trusses were delivered on Friday morning. The Truss company was over 2 1/2 hours late from the scheduled delivery time but we'd only planned on getting some off site business taken care of after the delivery so everything went well.

Delivery Of The New Trusses:








Tomorrow we are hoping to get all the new trusses rolled and the supports in. Once the new trusses are in we can install the new sheeting and then we'll be ready for our next inspection. Then we can put on the roof! Now that will truly be a milestone!