Starting to get weathertight

Battenkill Builders has been moving along on the soffits and has started on window installation. 

The west side soffits are done. 

 

The structure is all in place on the south gable. More metal needs to be bent to finish the gable.

Same on the north gable - structure all in place, a little more metal needed to finish up. 

The east side soffit is done, with the vented panels all in place. 

The first four windows went in place in a couple hours Wednesday afternoon. 

Windows have an unfinished pine interior. I will need to build extension jambs to bring them out to the finished wall depth. 

Time for the contractors

I'm off to Pennsylvania for a few weeks, so wrapped a few things up and then passed things off to contractors to finish roof prep, put on the roof, install doors and windows. 

Needed to tie the staircase post to the joist so built this little hook out of a 4x6 and pegged it to the post and screwed it to the joist. 

Another shot of the post and hook.

Still some work to finish off the floor on the north side.

South side floor is all in place. One circuit has been run to the second floor, now I've just got to run more outlets around the shop. 

Underside of the south side floor. Garage door openings all framed out for the hi-lift doors. 

Another shot of the south side floor. 

I had an electrician pull the main feed from the meter to the main panel in the building. He also upgraded the drop and meter socket to 200A.

When Tim upgraded the drop, he found this splice had failed to the house. We were experiencing flickering lights in the house - this failed splice explains it. 

I have another contractor working on the soffits - last step before the roof goes on. 

Friday the garage doors were installed. 

The doors were set up for liftmaster jack shaft openers.

With the door up 9', it will provide good clearance for cars on the lift. 

Eventually the door openers will be mounted between the two doors and connected to the torsion bars above the doors. 

Exterior Sheathing and Roof Insulation

August and September were busy with sheathing and wrapping the building in Tyvek, and insulating the roof and putting all the framing in place for the standing seam roof. 

Starting the sheathing and Tyvek on the Southern exposure

Most of the way up the north wall working off of staging. 

East wall all sheathed and starting to strap down roof insulation. 

About half the insulation up on the roof - some of it is sitting waiting against some cribbing on the west side of the roof while I lay it on the east side. I put a vertical run and a horizontal run of 3" poly iso insulation on the roof for a total R37 insulation value. 

The insulation all in place, along with Grace Tryflex along the lower 6' or so of the roof to help with condensation runoff. 2x6 vertical strapping is beginning to be laid down. I used 12" #15 screws to drive through the 2x6, 6" of foam and 1" roof boards and into the 6x6 rafters underneath. 

Rear wall all sheathed. 

My brother-in-law Ed bringing insulation up to the roof with his bucket truck. Faster than me hauling them up a ladder, though about 30 minutes after he brought this load up, the wind came up and blew about a dozen panels off the roof. 

I put 2x4 purlins 16" on center for the standing seam roof to attach, and laid 3' of plywood with Grace Ice and Water shield to protect against any ice dams. 

Looking at the south end of the building after it was all sheathed and wrapped with Tyvek and the roof prep was done. Next up is having a contractor finish out the soffits, then the roof can go on. 

Same roof detail on the east side. 

Back and east sides of the building also all covered in plywood and Tyvek.