Fourth floor here we come baby......rollin rollin rollin.....

So a couple of truck loads of floor trusses came last week, what a get sight they were.


That is the 100tons crance, that costs an arm and a leg to have come up and play with us for a few hours, but what a labor savers. We begin the setting of the trusses along with all the other stuff we can get delivered.


Each set is has code number that match the layout, well in theroy that is. Each set is strapped and lifted over to the house.


The hardest part of this whole process in not getting bumped off the beams as the trusses come over and are swung in position.


Now what is the fastest way to get from point "A" to point "B", find a strap and take a ride...see we don't work all the time....:)


It takes time to get every truss on their mark of 16 inch center. Then we have to put the stiffback in along with the leveling them and adding the ends on....


Adventech was 21 bucks a sheet when we thought about building this house, then it went to 34 bucks when we started. After the fire, it was back to 24 bucks a share and with a coupon we had it came in at $21.60 a sheet. Then I heard on the news that this hurricane was coming to New Orleans and it was a 4 or a 5. So, we went to Home Depot and bought 400 sheets of OSB, 150 sheets of HomeTech, a bunch of 2x4's, 2x6's, 2x8' 2x10's before the hurricane hit. Then came Rita and Adventech is now at $41.00 a sheet. NOW THAT IS A GREAT TRADE......rotfl.


The Adventech has gone thru the roof, but the screws to attach it to the trusses are still the same....go figure. So each floor takes 93 sheets of. Adventech and about 4,200 screws along with 6 cases of glue. These screw guns made this job easy as compared to crawling all over the place. The screws come on a strip of about 25 and you just punch it and in their go....NICE..