As you know, we've been doing some renovating. We started by digging and pouring a whole new foundation.Then we built some new walls around the old house.
Then it was time to put the second floor on top of the new walls.
Just how did we do that with the old roof in the way?, you ask.
That's a good question. It took a lot of planning. Very careful planning. And very careful placement of support columns in strategic places inside the existing house. Because the first thing we had to do was put in a beam in the new ceiling that goes the entire length of the house [north to south]. Then lay the joists east to west.
Eric did that through the existing roof. There was a lot of old roof in the way. It had to be stripped and sawzalled out. I love the sawzall. In the pic above, you can see the rafters of the old roof sticking out of the floor of our new second story. Here's a view from the ground, up into the floor of the new second story.
Yes, all of this meant that for weeks we had an open roof.
No. The weather did not cooperate. More on that later.
