Building Spirit: Basement walls

Friday, March 14, 2008

The rest of this week was spent building the main basement walls. (outer, and middle mainframe
Applying the OSB plywood before lifting wall:

continuing...

Wednesday morning we had a few visitors (other than the usual Turkeys):

Building the basement garage door frame:

outer walls complete (aside from a few pieces of OSB):

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

Building the middle wall:

Today we received the floor trusses, which will be hoisted via crane and installed on Monday.

Unloading the trusses:

At March 16, 2008 at 9:12 PM , Anonymous said...: What do floor trusses do?

And by the way, I really like the "Do Not Try This At Home" picture. And the picture in the previous post with the door frame (second to last picture?). You're a good photographer!

-S
At March 18, 2008 at 7:00 PM , Topher said...: Floor trusses will be the support underneath the main floor. They also will contain pipes, vents, and other various things.
At March 24, 2008 at 12:20 AM , Anonymous said...: I'm glad you don't mind the deer visiting, but you really shouldn't diss your relatives in the same breath! geeezzz
Bubba