I was also happy to see that Jim worked on the other landing - he put two pieces down to give him enough room to work but he also configured it so that he will be able to use the piece from yesterday that I marked wrong!
Jim made the clip angles for the top of the wall today and then installed two on each side.
We had to project the center of the roofline up onto the wall so that Jim will know the placement for the rafters.
Punching a couple holes in the rafters so that he will be able to put a screw through to hold it to the wall temporarily while he gets everything in place.
No pictures of the process since I was helping to guide the end into the clip angle, but the first rafter is up on the wall!
Then the second is in place...the roof is going to look amazing!
Next, Jim made the small ridge that goes in between the first two rafters and will also connect to the other rafters.
Screwing the ridge to both of the rafters required a Herculean effort. Jim couldn't get good leverage since he was up on the scaffolding at a weird angle. Plus, it was tough to keep in the correct position while fastening it - he had to redo some of the screws a couple times because things shifted.
But he finally got it and then started the task of putting all the screws to attach the rafter to the carriage house wall.
The left side where he had the scaffolding was the "easy" side - for the other side, Jim had to use a variety of ladders from the landing and still was in very awkward positions.
First two rafters all done and fastened completely to the wall!
Meanwhile, while Jim was doing things that I couldn't help with, I moved steel from the yard into the shop. This pile of steel will be for the bathroom in the woodworking shop. I moved a similar pile down into the lower shop that will be used for the utility room.
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