We've Turned Another Corner........

And it was a cold corner at that!!

We managed to dodge the majority of the snow that we were supposed to receive. We ended up with just a dusting of snow but the cold managed to arrive as predicted.

Morning lows were anywhere from +2 to -6 over the 3 day period. Fortunately, except for yesterday the winds were very light, but the days did not warm up much like they usually do during the winter.

Our first task this weekend was to work on placing the first west panel that tied into the west side bump-out which was another inside corner. We had figured this was going to take a while to get it all measured up, cut and the Styrofoam plowed out. As it turned out, it went smoothly and it was up and in place by noon on Saturday. From that point on it was a matter of getting 5 of the taller panels into place to complete the kitchen area on the west side.

We managed to get four of the tall panels in place by Sunday evening and figured that we would leave the last tall panel for next weekend being as it would require a little more time to complete due to a few more cuts to match up with the first north side panel.

Monday morning we started on the shorter 10' panels that would complete the loft area and the #2 bedroom upstairs. What a breeze these proved to be. We had no sill plate to fit over as these panels basically hung on the second floor portion of the frame.

We started by attaching a 2x6 to the outside of the second floor beam to form a shelf to set the sheet rock for the wall on while we screwed it into place, and also to align all of the SIP's while we dropped them into place. By afternoon the wind had picked up a fair amount and although it did not effect the installation of the SIs too much, the sheet rock was a little tricky.

Here again, as with the larger panels on the west side, it was getting late in the day on Monday and we opted to tackle the south end panel this coming weekend as well. After this past weekend we are down to 22 wall panels left to install.