Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Framing Up the New Addition

With the lumber schlepped around to the back yard, the framing began. There were several challenges with framing up the new structure and joining it cleanly to the existing house while making it all look like the new addition was built at the same time as the original house.

Our carpenter (Nathan) did a great job of pulling it all together. He is an interesting guy with a rather rough and colorful history (and loves colorful language), but he has great carpentry skills. He had a rough time keeping helpers. He fired two different helpers during the course of our construction and ended up doing a lot of the final work alone or with a couple helpers that TriStar (our general contractor) provided.

Below are a few pictures of the framing as it progressed.






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