Raising the roof

[Frank_Pender]

Now, that sounds like my kind of guy, Noble.  He and the house both must have been "homesick" for the farm.  and, besides, a farm is a good place to retire, both yourself and your home. ;D

[Paul_H]

The house is only half painted on the outside,and the porch railings are cut,and drying for installation in the Spring,but it is starting to take shape.

If I could do it over again,the house would have gone up another 18".That would have given ample headroom in the crawl space,for a workshop,etc



 

[Corley5]

That's quite a transformation!!!  It looks great! 8) 8) 8)

[Fla._Deadheader]

DanG, Noble. Glad ya done it !! (Dug it out). That was a real project. Nicely done.

[chet]

WOW, that project gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "building from the ground up". ;)  Great job

[Frank_Pender]

DanG, Paul, I like that rap around porch.  Is that a flowering tree of some sort, or a Dwarf Apple of some sort?   As to the crawl space not be adequate for a shop, that gives you an excuse to build a separate building for a shop that is twice the size of the space beneath the house. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Paul_H]

Thank you everybody for your comments.Before we started,a building contractor came by to look.He said,you have heavy equipment don't you? He then said,bring it in,tear it down and have a big fire,then I'll build you another one.

But we had researched our options,and had considered the downside of raising the house,against building a new one.The cost per sq ft came out to $41 US,and locally it would have cost 1 1/2 that amount,to replace the house.

Frank,
The tree in front is a Flowering Crabapple,pink blossoms in th Spring,and lots of apples for the birds over winter.

Noble,
thank you for bringing the thread back up for air.Hopefully in the spring,there will be a finished house to show.

[Frank_Pender]

You know, Paul, I could bring you some lumber from Oregon one day this early spring for you "new shop".   But, would there be an import tax on the lumber?  I would need to know the particulars before I tried to cross to the North side.  Or, Have to make a call to have you bail be out of the poky from trying to hijack contraband across the boarder.  the lumber would be all free but for the tax, if any? ;D

[hawby]

Paul,

Seeing pictures of your project made me go find one of my "Summer vacation" project. We too added a family member last year, and just plain ran out of room.

I only went up 6 inches, but it was fun just the same. The house is 80 plus years old, but the steel beams flexed more than the oak beams.

The house is so well built, I took out a three window section that my grandpa put in back in the forties. He (gulp) did not put a header in over it. Well, when I pulled out 17' for a wide open entryway, I ran a string. Less than 1/8th inch variance from end to end.

I am not quite as far in my project as you, but I did manage to get the "wood foundation" back under the house prior to snowfall. I will be insulating it as soon as the bonus gets mailed and gosh the wife and I look forward to moving from a 10 X 10 bedroom to a 24 X 16 one.

I loved your stairway. I am going out "shopping" for the oak tree to put on the LT40 to make our stairs with, on New Year's Day. 8)

I was going to attach a pic of the house up on the rails, but we took all the pics with high resolution and there too large to upload. I'll play with them in the editor to see if I can down size them.

[Paul_H]

Hawby,
It sounds like you are enjoying your project as much as we are.I hope you can get those pictures posted for us to see what's happening.

During the 1940's,my step Grandfather had a mill in Squamish.He was cutting ties for the railway during the war,and accumulated a large pile of reject ties.He was going to resaw them to build a house,but decided to build it using the ties.It was built with the ties on the narrow edge,piled on top of one another like a log cabin.The doors and windows were cut out afterward.The house was 30x30,with a hip roof.

In 1963 he sold the land downtown to the Royal Bank,and moved the house to a new lot,about a mile away.He had a moving company come up from the city,and got a contract price to move it.He never told the man about the tie construction and let him believe it was stick frame.When the crew came up,they couldn't lift it,and had to go back for more jacks and dollies.A dirty trick,in my opinion.

When my Granny died in 1983,she willed the house back to his childeren,and I bought it off of them.If you didn't know the construction of it,you couldn't guess that it was all ties on the outside.But you could hang a picture,shelf,or even a large set of tongs,anywhere.

[Frank_Pender]

Now, that is my kind of Wall, Paul.  In fact, Alice believes I feel that way about my whining-room now, with all the "stuff" hanging up: all the way from autographed 12" x 18" pictures of the Cisco Kid, to scaled original Viking ships (gift form student 25 years ago) hanging from the cieling.   8)

[hawby]

Paul,

Yes, I have had some fun with it. I really enjoyed using the Cat backhoe, and the Bobcat with tracks to dig out under the house. (I rented them, sure wish I owned that Bobcat).

We're adding on a 32' x 24' full basement and single story. So we are going to be swimming in space compared to what we currently have.

I am hoping to find a source of cedar logs to "split" in half with my LT40 to give the family room a log cabin feel. ( Hopefully someone here has a lead for me on them) Course, I gotta get the whole thing built first.

I'll have pics sometime soon. Jeff and Tom gave me the instruction set for adding pics to the forum. I am downloading the Optimizer as we speak, as well as watching my Wolverines play in the sunshine of Florida! (We're ahead!!!)

Happy New Year to all of you! I look forward to getting to know you all better this year.

[hawby]

OK, let's give this picture thing a try.....

Thanks Jeff for the Modify button (UNDO UNDO) I sure was not having much luck with that Optimizer thingeee. Felt kinda like the first time I started bringing the sawhead back without raising it    :-/   :'(

Go Wolverines!!!!!!




Hope that I did this correctly. Twenty plus years of using PCs and still learning....