Building Update #19 - Holiday House Progress

Our progress has slowed somewhat over the holidays, not because we are not out there every day (except Christmas Day - Jake let us take it off), but because the weather has been unseasonably brutal - cold and snow.  Our winter has actually made national news (click here), with no end in sight.  

Jake and his Dad trying to snap chalk lines for our second floor wall bottom plates the day after Christmas.  We knocked off shortly thereafter since we couldn't stay ahead of the accumulating snow.

Framing up the long north wall.

Trimming the sheathing on the long north wall.

New Years Day - putting together our large window headers in the South Wall on the second floor.  We are using a single-ply header which allows us to fit the same amount of insulation above our windows as in our walls.  In order to meet code we have to glue, and nail it every 3 inches.  Here Jake is applying our glue.

Nailing the header.

Both headers complete.

South wall framed, sheathed, and windows routed.  North wall is complete as well.  We are just waiting for it to warm up enough to caulk (for airsealing), but it is not supposed to rise above single digits for the next two days.