Moving and Home Sweet Home

This past weekend saw a complete abandonment of any building work as we concentrated on moving all of our possessions from Victoria to Cobble Hill.  Our U-Haul truck (nicknamed "Humungous Fungus" because of the graphics on the side) made two FULL loads along with numerous trips in our own two vehicles and another large truck full of the heavy woodworking equipment.  Huge thanks to Karen's sister Jan, her Mum and Dad, our friends Steve and Sam and Ken and Patti for all of the help and support! 

So, now we are all but moved into our rented 5th Wheel trailer and with a bit of money in the bank will hope to be resuming on the building project by late this week.  The blog will be a bit dead for a few weeks until our internet gets hooked up again.

Windows In Shop-Garage

While Dave and Dean were busy on the curved roof, Corey and I completed the rainscreen details on the window openings and Daryl arrived just in time to install of the white vinyl windows in the shop and garage

Curved Roof Transition

So now the next challenge was to create the curved transition which blends the arched roof into the main roof slope.  Using their vast carpentry know-how, Dean and Dave plugged away for an afternoon and completed a beautiful parabolic shape which is all ready for Pat to cover with his metal.

Curved Arches Made, Shipped and Installed

The one remaining piece of the roof that needed to be made before Pat can install the metal roofing was the curved arches above the Master Bedroom balcony.  So, the 6 arches were laminated on our shop floor, planed, delivered to the site, sanded and trimmed then installed on the post and beam structure by Daryl, Dean and Dave.

House Roof and Arch for Balcony

The past week's other major happening has been getting all of the pine boards oiled and urethaned thanks to Karen's family: Mum-Barb, Sister-Jan and B'in-law-Russ for their help on the August long weekend.  With the pine all prepped, our building crew Daryl, Dean, Corey and Dave had all of the pine boards up on the roof with the peel & stick membrane on by last thing Thursday just in time for this weekend's rainfall.

The big push from our end is to complete the pieces necessary to build the curved arch roof over the master bedroom balcony including a few pieces of simple timber frame and 7 curved arch glue-lam beams which we have been madly completing in our shop at the rate of 8 laminations per day (16 required per beam).  

This is all a bit tense as we have sold our Victoria house and the deal closes on August 25 so let's see: at the rate of 8 laminations per day and 16 required per beam and 7 beams needed.....

Metal Roofing

First of all, apologies for neglecting to update things for a week or so, it's been that busy!

Our roof metal arrived over a week ago and was die rolled on-site to the shape required by Leo and Cookie.  Pat, our master roofer has been busy full time (as in every day, including all three of the long weekend) fitting the individual panels to the roof.  I had no idea how "hand made" a metal roof was but Pat has been fitting all of the flashings and ridge caps by hand for a perfect custom fit and has our major respect for the work he has been putting in, including some VERY HOT days up on the reflective "galvalum" surface.