They have worked on putting in the valley rafters and jack rafters as well as putting in some more ceilings over some places.
It's 1:30 am as I'm writing this so you won't get a very "wordy" description of anything. Sorry, but I forgot to start uploading things to http://www.kodakgallery.com/ (where I send more pictures than here in the Blog) until very late. I always do the Blog stuff afterward, so hence the brevity of this description.
Here is the view from the front today.
Below is a view that looks something like a church as it is now. These are the rafters over the great room.
I just like the picture below. It is taken straight up (or as close as I could come without falling over backward) from inside the great room. It reminds me of an airplane with multiple wings or something. There was a pretty blue sky today.
The one below is taken from where the bedroom over the master bedroom will be toward the loft (with the elevator shaft showing) and toward the bathroom that will have entrances from both the loft and directly from the other bedroom also. The loft is just over 18 feet from the window to the edge of the loft where it drops off to the great room below.
The beam that is going diagonally from bottom right to top middle is one of the two valley rafters. The jack rafters will attach to it and go to the large beam that goes from one side of the house to another. It has a name, but I don't remember what it is! The one going from front to back is the ridge beam. It's out of view here to the top. Anyway, the valley rafters are called that because they form the "valley" between the different roof sections. The jack rafters attach to the valley rafters. Each of them is a different length and they have to be manually cut because of their compound angles that have to be fit to the valley rafters.
The view below is from the upstairs bathroom toward the bedroom across the way. The elevator shaft is out there in the loft area.
I climbed out on the roof of the front porch to take the picture below just so you can see how the front of the house looks from this angle.
A pretty day at the log home!
Below you can see how the wiring "gets to" the middle of the ceiling of the screened room. It is inside of pipes that are "inset" into the boards. This is to get it out there where we will have an outdoor ceiling fan/light.
Below Steve is using his power drill to drive an 8 inch screw through the jack rafter into the valley rafter. These are nailed first with their nail guns and then 2 or more screws are put in to provide more strength. Working this high standing on metal scaffolding that is about 15 inches wide isn't my idea of fun, but these guys don't seem to mind it at all. I guess if you were afraid of heights you wouldn't last long in this job.
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