October 1, 2005 - Building Day!
The forecast is calling for rain, and it certainly looks as if it will pour down any minute. It cannot rain today. I kept saying this to myself over and over, yeah, even outloud a few times. The guys arrived at 8:30 am and got started, only find... the lumber company brought the wrong kind of lumber and not enough of it anyhow. And they stated emphatically that they do NOT do Saturday deliveries. "Oh honey!" My dear, sweet darling husband Shawn drove in there and the corrected order was on the sight within an hour. That costs us precious time though and we were noon before the first wall was up.
OH that so was AWESOME! The kids stood transfixed to their little patches of dirt, mouths agape, Shawn and I wept aw we watche dthem raise it up. God is so good. Abby kept saying "Mama! I didn't know cabins were so BIG!"
It does look bigger than it would have been initially too because they ahd to raise the roof pitch even more. You see, in the beginning when I drew up the plans, they called for a 9pitch roofline with just a small loft area in one end. Then we got a few bargains, saved a few pennies here and there and could afford to build an entire 2nd floor. Adam had to correct the roof pitch after they got here. That took some head scratching on their part, more money on ours and again... TIME.
But with the higher roof pitch we will have a big nice room up there with an 8ft.
ceiling, a nice room for the boys - 15 x 27 not just a loft but a full second floor bedroom with bathroom too. :-) That was more than we planned on though and by the end of the day we spent about $600 m ore on the roof steel. Speaking of which, the company we bought it from has been wonderful! But the manager/owner figured the length we needed wrong. So we have $600+ worth of tin that is 3 ft too short.Sigh... that's an expensive mistake. We will find out MOnday if they will trade it in for the right length or if we are going to have to swallow it. "Swalling it" being the temr, Iwe learned, when there is a mistake made in materials. Your fault, my fault, nobody's fault and the own pays for it. It stinks. With the extra "surprise" expense (more than $1000 total) we are not sure how far we are going to get into the finish work before our money runs out. But that's fine. I don't really mind living there while we work on it. In fact, I have always had this secret desire to live "rough" for awhile. Just too see how it was like for our pioneer mothers.
God was merciful and it never did rain more than a dozen drops. NOt even enough to get anything wet. And at the end of the day we have the end walls up
with windows in them. Boy it looks pretty. V e r y n i c e i n d e e d .
All together we will have 1536 square feet. Not bad. :-)
* * * On a personal note... we are so TIRED. We decided yesterday than one really should do construction work everyday or never. This stuff is hard on a fat girl. :-) You just try to convince me that Tylenol isn't a legitimate building expense. Without it I would have been useless! lol A big THANK YOU to the guys that came to help us on Saturday:
My darling brothers (Neither are married but both are spoken for!)
Adam and Ben And their friends who are now ours as well, Jerry, Mike, and our cousin C.C. Without David Jerry's trailer full of tools, Mike's staples
and C.C. offering to buy our tin if they won't replace it, building this house would have been a long and almost impossible task. And to my mom and sisters who
cooked delicious potato soup, homemade bread and brownies for a load of
hungry men. You are wonderful. :-) What would I do without you?
OH that so was AWESOME! The kids stood transfixed to their little patches of dirt, mouths agape, Shawn and I wept aw we watche dthem raise it up. God is so good. Abby kept saying "Mama! I didn't know cabins were so BIG!"
It does look bigger than it would have been initially too because they ahd to raise the roof pitch even more. You see, in the beginning when I drew up the plans, they called for a 9pitch roofline with just a small loft area in one end. Then we got a few bargains, saved a few pennies here and there and could afford to build an entire 2nd floor. Adam had to correct the roof pitch after they got here. That took some head scratching on their part, more money on ours and again... TIME.
But with the higher roof pitch we will have a big nice room up there with an 8ft.
ceiling, a nice room for the boys - 15 x 27 not just a loft but a full second floor bedroom with bathroom too. :-) That was more than we planned on though and by the end of the day we spent about $600 m ore on the roof steel. Speaking of which, the company we bought it from has been wonderful! But the manager/owner figured the length we needed wrong. So we have $600+ worth of tin that is 3 ft too short.Sigh... that's an expensive mistake. We will find out MOnday if they will trade it in for the right length or if we are going to have to swallow it. "Swalling it" being the temr, Iwe learned, when there is a mistake made in materials. Your fault, my fault, nobody's fault and the own pays for it. It stinks. With the extra "surprise" expense (more than $1000 total) we are not sure how far we are going to get into the finish work before our money runs out. But that's fine. I don't really mind living there while we work on it. In fact, I have always had this secret desire to live "rough" for awhile. Just too see how it was like for our pioneer mothers.
God was merciful and it never did rain more than a dozen drops. NOt even enough to get anything wet. And at the end of the day we have the end walls up
with windows in them. Boy it looks pretty. V e r y n i c e i n d e e d .
All together we will have 1536 square feet. Not bad. :-)
* * * On a personal note... we are so TIRED. We decided yesterday than one really should do construction work everyday or never. This stuff is hard on a fat girl. :-) You just try to convince me that Tylenol isn't a legitimate building expense. Without it I would have been useless! lol A big THANK YOU to the guys that came to help us on Saturday:
My darling brothers (Neither are married but both are spoken for!)
Adam and Ben And their friends who are now ours as well, Jerry, Mike, and our cousin C.C. Without David Jerry's trailer full of tools, Mike's staples
and C.C. offering to buy our tin if they won't replace it, building this house would have been a long and almost impossible task. And to my mom and sisters who
cooked delicious potato soup, homemade bread and brownies for a load of
hungry men. You are wonderful. :-) What would I do without you?
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