4.15.2016

Oops...kind of a blurry picture but wanted to capture that Jim got more light fixture mounts placed this morning.  He'll be all ready by the time the lights get here!  He tries to keep up with some of these more tedious tasks in the morning so that he doesn't have to spend all day getting the mounts up when the fixtures come.

This is the shoulder that will go on the front gable ends - he modified the first one he made and made it slightly smaller.  Then he's duplicating it for the other side.

Outside work time!  Jim got one the first fascia mounting piece attached...

Jim wanted to cut barely 1/4" off the corner of the hip rafter so that the fascia boards would fit perfectly.  It's really amazing to me that everything comes together at the corners so well when each piece is so different coming down from the roof.

Mounting the next piece of fascia backing...

The last piece on the side of the building completes that job!

Next job was fastening the bottom clip angles...

Doing more clip angles...

Once that job was done, this whole section is done for the moment - that's a good feeling!  So it's time to take scaffolding down and move it around front.

Using some of the pieces to build up this tower so that he can work on this roof section.

This may be the official smallest piece of sheathing to go in the carriage house!  This goes at the end of the rafter tails on the side of the carriage house to bring everything out to the same plane.

Attaching the piece...

Because it's the way we do things, let's put some house wrap on the tiny piece of sheathing!

Here is the shoulder piece - just trying it on for size.  This was a complicated problem to figure out - the valley comes down here and ends at two different points.  Jim needs to keep water diverted as well as have a better design for the trim boards that will go underneath the gable. 

Jim is working on more of the details...

This afternoon, I worked on priming the rake boards.  All of these have to be in place before we can work on shingles for the main roof section.

Jim worked after I left and got both shoulders built.

 

Today was a really glorious day - not a cloud in the sky and we were able to shed a few sweatshirts.  Jim had 92.3 The Fan (Cleveland sports talk) blasting out of the open window in the shop while we were working outside - I said it was the first day that really felt like spring!  It was such a treat after working in such freezing temperatures for months and months.

 

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