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Well, we had planned to finish the chapel roof today, but Mike is home with a bad cold. Turns out working in the pouring rain on somebody's roof can be hazardous to your health.
Instead, Victoria and I will tarp up the walls for winter. We'll finish the roof Sunday. Helpers enthusiastically welcome!
Here are some shots from two different days - in the first, Victoria and I hang the floor joists, in the second, Victoria, Mike, and I put on part of the new roof.
Enjoy!
Instead, Victoria and I will tarp up the walls for winter. We'll finish the roof Sunday. Helpers enthusiastically welcome!
Here are some shots from two different days - in the first, Victoria and I hang the floor joists, in the second, Victoria, Mike, and I put on part of the new roof.
Enjoy!
| Hanging the floor joists This is me, putting a final screw into one of the chapel floor joists. |
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| It's a floor! Victoria gives a cautious thumbs up while testing the floor joists. |
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| Like an accordian... Floor joists ought to be 18" apart. You'll notice that these vary wildly in their spacing. Like everything else in this old building, there was no way to space the joists evenly. When in doubt, we erred on the side of "much too close". |
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| Before: A decrepit shack with a tarp for a roof. |
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| During: The tarp off, you can see the ribs of the roof. |
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| Close-up A view of the chapel roof, with Pistachio House in the background. Note the large number of nails left over from the previous three roofs. These I had to pull out before we could proceed. |
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| Sans nails Nails pulled. There's three hours I'm never getting back. |
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| Roof! It looks great! Of course, we only managed to finish this one side and part of another before the rain and dark set in. |
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| Zooming in A slightly better shot of the roof - we're using the same shingles as on the main house. |
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| The Lamp For no good reason, there's a non-working lamppost sticking out of the chapel. Water has been seeping in here for decades, turning the nearby studs into so much muck. It will have to go. |
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| Timber! Six bolts out, and it falls like a magnificent, well, sapling. |
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| On the ground It made a might crash when the bulb hit the ground. If I had any brains at all, I'd have taken the bulb out first. |
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Date: 2010-09-22 06:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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