On February 25th at Exactly 10:51 A.M..........

We finished putting the last wall SIP into place!!!

Technically, there are the dormer sides and the peak SIP on the great room, but they will not be put into place until stick framing is all but complete on the east wall of the great room. Much of the aspen will need to be in place prior to installing the dormer SIP's.

It took us 11 weeks to get this far, but only about 19 days of actual work went on in those 11 weeks. And a total of 63 panels were put in place.

Also, this weekend, we spent time going over windows for the great room. We are not necessarily ready to order them but we need the rough opening dimensions to start framing the great room wall. My wife has come up with the best combination of windows thus far. In fact, her design is what we will probably end up using.

We even managed to get started on installing plate material for the bump out roof. In addition, we got the roof SIP's for this area hauled up to the house and ready to start prepping them.

We also have found some homes in the area that have siding and metal roofs that we are possibly going to go with.

This siding is ship lap cedar siding and comes pre-stained. We like the weathered look of

this stain, and also the fact that it comes pre-stained which will help save time.

We have been really struggling with roof material. We both very much would like to go with a slate roof but cost is very high as well as installation time would be lengthy. Another house nearby has a metal roof that we may consider. We both really like the color and we would like to go with a standing seam style roof. Also, the added snow fence is a nice added feature for saving the rain gutters in a heavy snow.
We continue sealing the T&G aspen which we will soon be starting to apply. We have about four hundred boards completed thus far, with several hundred left.

So now we start the roof SIP's. That count....71!!