House built with love

This weekend we've been talking about and working on the details for the erin on the outside of the house. The discussion has actually been going on for months without final resolution. We tried butterflies, leaves and other motifs but one or both of us was not in agreement. It was time for a new idea. We asked Peter to come up with something.

He took inspriation from the electrical tower shutters we had build almost nine years ago.

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Peter came up with two quick drawings, one of the trim and one of the knees that would go under the soffits.

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I fired up the CNC router to create some samples.

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One more piece of the puzzle is complete. This is a house built with love.

-grampa dan

One block at a time!

Those who have been watching the house build, both near and far are amazed at the quick progress. True to form I wish it would go a little faster. My job today was to go over the window order one last time, triple checking every buck, measuring and remeasuring as we would push the go button on the window producion at Innotech. Any miss calculations get real expensive from this point. Everything checked out with a couple of mnor exceptions. These were noted and I signed off on the windows.

Harold's crew were busy all day, stacking up LOGIX blocks and laying in rebar. They are on the top course now save for the two high gables in the cener of the house. They put up a long board over the big central window to indicate just how high the top of the center roof would be. It looks way up there!

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By tomorrow's end they should be starting to tidy things up in readiness for the next major concrete pour. Trusses begin to arrive in the middle of next week. It is getting very exciting!

-grampa dan

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