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Trusses and Roofing

Setting the Roof Trusses and sheeting/shingling the roof
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June 4, 2012
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These pictures were taken on Monday June 4th and Tuesday June 5th; the roof was constructed and "papered" on Monday and the shingles were put on on Tuesday
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Preps for the Roof Work
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On the picture on the left, they had taken the cover off the door and as Mindy said, it looks like with a house now that you can see the front door. In the center picture, they have put down a walkway so you can get in and the left shows the crane getting ready to unload the truck with the roof supplies
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Just unloading supplies off the truck and moving the Trusses so they are not in the way
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More unloading
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Finishing the unload - you can see an empty truck at the end.
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Stripping the Temporary Roofs of of the Modules
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The modules has these little "mini roofs" to protect them on the road trip and to protect the inside until the roof was set - The roofers are topside starting to remove the these temporary roofs.
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You can see them pulling the plastic off on the master bedroom module
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After taking the plastic off, the remove the structure that was built to staple the plastic to - they are moving on to the next module
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Installation of the Trusses
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First Truss going up - also known as the "Gable End".
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----Second and Third Truss
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Couple of pictures of #4 and then the 7th Truss on the way
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More trusses - the pictures on the left and middle are the trusses for the Great Room; you can see the vault. The truss on the right has the vault in the back for the Great Room and the vault in the front for the foyer
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A couple more Great Room/Foyer trusses and then the house with all the trusses on them (I was off doing other things so I did not take a lot of pictures for awhile)
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Putting the OSB sheets on the Roof
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Sheets are going on - these guys carried the first 6 or 8 sheets up the ladder by hand
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After they got enough sheets on, the built a little platform and the crane brought up a bunch of panels
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Putting the sheets down-
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More sheets being put down - starting on the left side
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You can see the left side being built - They did the same thing over here - carried the fist 6 or so sheets by hand and then had the crane put some sheets on.
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The crane is putting the bundle of sheeting on the roof for the other side
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Sheets are being put down
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As they were finishing up the front, half the crew went to the back side of the house - the crane held the stack until the set enough sheets to build the platform
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You can see how there were about 6 or 8 sheets turned sideways so the could start the sheeting on the back
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I went inside the house and took a few pictures - these were taken from the Great Room (because the Great Room is vaulted, the ceiling was not installed.
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Couple of more pictures from inside of the back of the house - then a picture of the progress on the front of the house
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Finishing up the front and they are carrying the leftover sheets from the font to the back side of the house.
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Taking more sheets to the back of the house and a couple of pictures of the back side of the house.
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Finishing up the back of the house.
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Papering the Roof
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They put the "ice dam" rubber coating down and then the paper - they are no longer using tar paper, they use the plastic white paper
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Finishing up the paper
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End of the day
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They also completed "papering" the back of the house; and then the left to come back on Tuesday to put the shingles on.
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June 6th, 2012
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Day two of the roofing - There are not a lot of early pictures because it was raining like crazy until about 10:30 am. The roofers were going to wait for it to stop raining but they went inside the house and it was leaking pretty bad. They did a lot of work while it was raining and I wasn't taken pictures so the camera would not get wet.
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Shingling the Roof
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This is where they were (picture on the left) when it stopped raining about 10:30 or 11 am
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The front is pretty close to done and they are getting ready to move the crane
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The crane is out of the way and you can finally see what the house looks like - the "un-shingled" area is where the carport ties in; they did end up covering that with the "ice dam" material before they left
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ALL DONE!!!
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Pictures with the roof all done - really looks like a house now
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