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| The complete package! |
Monday arrived and Marie and I headed back to the property again to supervise the erection of the house, stopping first in Barton, Vermont at the Radiant Floor Company to pick up the manifolds, pumps and other pieces we will need when we install our PEX in the three floors of the house.
But that will be another story - coming up in July. But in the meantime we had to get back to the property to be on site for the arrival of the flat bed truck at 0630 the next morning carrying our new home. Things didn't start out well at all (we both suspected as much when we saw the face on the driver) as the truck was way too big to back up into our driveway and up to the house location over 600 feet away. It got hopelessly stuck at the bottom of my drive and jammed itself against a rock and spruce tree, bottoming out on the road in the neighbors entranceway, blocking Maxime for three hours. With a lot of tugging and cursing from all, including me as my trees, sign and roadway were all taking a beating, using both the crane and a bulldozer it inched its way up the drive (another 2 hours) and just before noon was in place. The first part of the wall was lifted off and set firmly in place... Slowly but surely over the next three days the house began going up! The weather cooperated - hot and sunny - and everything went well as you can see by the pictures. A long weekend is now on us here in Quebec (
La Fête nationale du Québec) ....work will resume Tuesday when the windows, doors, roofers and plumber arrive - should be another hectic week which I will report on as soon as I can get a minute. As they say here - bonne fin de semaine and Happy Birthday to my dear sweet Mother! gws
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| Stuck trying to get up my drive |
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| Meantime as we wait for the truck work begins... |
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| Almost there! |
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| Finally the first piece is craned off the truck and put in place |
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| Just like LEGO blocks! |
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| Here comes part of the living room floor |
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| Nailing it in place |
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| View inside basement |
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| Main wall arriving |
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| Craning in steel load bearing beam |
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| Setting it in place |
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| Marie standing in our bedroom - who is that strange man with her? |
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| Early morning (6am) day 2 awaiting arrival of carpenters |
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| Main walls going up |
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| Nailing into place |
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| Main beam for cathedral ceiling being lifted up |
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| Setting beam into notches |
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| Lifting part of deck into position |
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| Leveling deck piece |
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| Next deck piece arriving |
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| 6x6 posts being set in place to support deck (28x12) |
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| View from mezzanine before roof plywood put on |
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| Close up of roof trusses |
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| Roof trusses before being closed up |
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| View from below as roof almost finished |
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| Day 3 Building peak, piece by piece |
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| One side of peak finished |
