Windows and Roofing!

How exciting, framing is almost wrapped up. They got the finished the third floor, installed the windows, and roof trusses are up. Some of roof sheathing is up as well. I had to look up what sheathing is and "it's the boards or sheet material fastened to the roof rafters on which the shingle or other roof covering is laid."
We also got some photos of what our view will be from the deck. You can see across the river. If you're on the ground, the river is currently blocked by big mounds of dirt. So unless you climb up the dirt, you can't see the river.
This week they're supposed to be finishing up the roof sheathing, putting on the shingles and starting the rough mechanicals (basic plumbing, electric, air ducts). It's about 45 days from settlement once they start the rough mechanicals. My thought is weather may not play as big of a factor once they start on the inside work, so even if it keeps on raining daily here, they won't get delayed too far. I guess that means we better get a move on with the boring stuff like picking insurance and start paying attention to mortgage rates. Obviously, since we're getting closer to our settlement date, mortgage rates have been steadily creeping up past 4%. Oh well, better than 10%.

Photo our Sales Rep sent us of the third floor being worked on during the week. Or the worker was taking a mid-day break :)

What our view from the 2nd floor deck will be. Eventually, there will be houses built but we can enjoy the view for now.

View of the back of our unit. I hope the straighten the ladder before climbing up!

View of the back of the entire unit. You can see where they are still working on the roof sheathing.

The side of our unit.

How'd he get in my picture!

Front of our unit. You can see through the top windows that the roof isn't complete yet. Either that our we're going to have a BIGGGG skylight window.

I thought it was interesting they build these temporary shelves and then put the big pieces of roof sheathing on them instead of going up and down to grab each piece.

You can start to see how the front of each unit will look different. The people next to us got a double bumped-out window on the 2nd floor.

The garage wall is starting to be framed.

Through the front door you can see where they are framing the hallway and where they installed the first two steps on the left. 

Not our unit but you can see that they got a lot of the staircase done already.

Laying out the rest of the roofing trusses.

I think these are more of the decorative roofing designs on the 3rd floors.

Other end of the unit. Guess there's still some wall work to do.

Still Framing

They are continuing to frame the house and will so through the next week. The rainy weather pushed them back a few days but hopefully they'll be able to gain it back.

Leftover water from that morning's apocalyptic rain storm. The sewers are blocked by orange sandbag like things. Probably to block nails and trash from going down the sewer.

Looks like they put the second floor for every other unit on. I'd guess that somehow they anchor the other units' second floors to the ones that are standing right now.

The top of the stairwell is now covered by the second floor and floor joists.

Zoom in of the stairwell.

Maybe they use that orange belt to hoist up beams instead of walking them up a ladder?

View of the back of the house. We'll have a window on the left and sliding doors on the right for both floors.

First floor!

They started framing in Week 5 and looks like a lot of progress has been made. Depending on weather, it could take 2-3 weeks to finish framing. Jason keeps saying that this is the point where you really start to see the work done each day. I drove by one day after work and took pictures with my cell phone, so the quality isn't that good.

Windows and doors but I think they're for a different building

Some type of pre-built boxes. I can't figure out what they're for or they were just crates.

More of those boxes

More boxes. They're probably nothing but I was obviously intrigued.

Our unit and our green firewall between the units. Hopefully that will never need to be used.

I guess some type of support beams or ventilation or piping goes through those circles. Although it kind of looks like a person with two eyes and a square nose.

The left units on our block. My guess is they start from the ends and work their way in since the middle unit doesn't have the ceiling yet.

Some type of gas or electric meters on the side of the house.

Since I felt the need to take pictures of everything, a drainage cover.

Our back window and sliding patio door that will look into the walk-in basement. I didn't realize how much dirt they'll have to add back to make the door level with the ground.

Side view

View from outside the garage looking in.

Just showing off how bad my zoom is on my cell phone.

View from the front door looking in. You can see where the stairs will be on the left.

View from the front door looking to where the powder room, stairs and boiler closet will be. If I had to guess, the pipe to the left of the picture is the powder room plumbing and the 3 pipes in the middle are for the hot water heater and sewage.

Looking up where the stairs will be and the landing for the 2nd floor.

More of those circular holes that you can see through the front wall.

Our triangular roof tresses. Hope they don't forget to put on the second floor first!