1.30.2016

When I got to the property, Jim was up on the landing!  He was putting some screws in the top of the header.

In order to do that, he put some scrap OSB on top of the joists so that we could walk up there.

I went up to take a peak too.  This is the view from the top landing down to the next one!



In this picture, Jim is working on installing the stud and then the track on top for the extra stability for the roof rafters.

Then it was time for more sheathing.  It's always a challenge to figure out how best to get the sheathing where it needs to be.  This time, Jim pushed it up from the bottom up to the landing...

 

He balanced it up on top of the wall until he could come around and get back on the scaffolding...

...and then was able to bring it down into place.

Working on all the fasteners...

Jim wants to work on the east side of the stairwell next.  In order to do that, he will have to take down the original bracing.  So first he put up a brace on the inside of the wall.

Then he was able to safely take down the other brace.

With the brace out of the way, he can now continue putting up the ledger board.  It's not easy to work here - everything is iced over and on a hill!

And then the flashing.

He decided to continue with the ledger board around the back side also.

It was challenging enough for Jim to try and put up the ledger board and flashing in this area...you can see that it goes down a steep hill which is now covered in slippery ice.  But now how do you put scaffolding up so that we can work on sheathing?  Jim's solution was to put planks up - he fastened two together...

and then two more on the other side.  For this first piece, he can work off a platform just on the planks but he will later build scaffolding on top of these planks.

Finally time for sheathing!

Jim put enough fasteners in to hold it down for the moment.

But before he could go too far, he had to put another stud in this area.  This was one of the pieces in the new steel delivery so now it's time to get it in place.

Fastening down the stud.  At this point, I had to leave to get ready for church.  Jim stayed just a bit longer and got some more fasteners in the sheathing.  We'll pick up here tomorrow - it's supposed to be a little warmer day so we wanted to take full advantage!

 

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