We are firmly entering the cold weather segment of construction. It appears that the unusual stretch of warm weather in the midwest has hit a brick wall and we will begin to see more seasonal temps. The wind was honkin' this past weekend and I am very pleased to report that it had zero effect on our progress or well being. Yeah, it really is nice to be buttoned up. Furthermore, when the sun is shining, we get some warming up since we are working upstairs. - We have completely laid out all the construction lines for all the interior partition walls. Every floor, wall and ceiling line is chalked or penciled and ready for wood. All blocking is installed and marked. All plumbing locations have been verified and will work around all the supporting floor framing (this is a big deal when you're trying to squeeze in plumbing stuff in a small space). We also tied all the roof trusses together from one end to the other at the center and also at the 1/4 point on each side of center. The trusses span 27 feet and they needed some fine tuning to get everything at 16" o/c at every point across the 27' span. We used our leftover truss spacers for the 1/4-span points...they worked great. This snugging up of all the trusses will pay back when it comes time to install drywall. -
