We continue to move higher in all areas

When you come across the bridge this is the current view, we laid OSB board on the deck of the bridge with a sheet of plastic under it to protect the bridge from construction traffic. The third floor deck is now framed out with those 18 inch tree posts as they work on the the third floor framing.


The second floor is our entertainment floor, with a billard, theater and a large open area with a wrap around bar. We have been able to rebuild this area just like it was before the fire, except we will have to re-surface the colored concrete floor in a few weeks. Each support beam that goes from the house out to their post are make up of 2x12's with a 3/8 inch steel plate sandwiched in between. So even my mother-in-law could clog until the cows come home and it wouldn't collapse.


After the fire instead of renting a high lift or cherry picker, I decided it would be cost effective to just go ahead and buy one....thank you eBay. This JLG lift is great for getting up to those high places safely.


The posts are from white pine trees, pinned at the bottom and notched at the top, they had been draw knifed before they came but look at the one on the left and then the one on the right and you can see how dirty there were. So we had the boys clean them up....all 10 of them.


During the fire, a lot of the ECO block concrete walls had their foam burned off so before the rockers could come back to start stone casing the joint, we had to fix the walls....simple right????


Oh yea, first we had to remove all the damaged foam, and the black tie braces and clean the wall. Then we had to shoot nails into the presure treated 2x4's after we glued the back of the those to the wall. Over 1100 nails and shots were used...why do I know this, well I had to buy 11 boxes of nails and 11 boxes of shot...#4.


Then a sheet of OSB was cut and nailed to the 2x4's after it was glued on. If that wasn't enough, a sheet of tar paper was then applied and around the house we went.


It didn't take forever, it only seems like it at times, but within a week the entire house had been cleaned up and was ready for the rockers...who started yesterday....pics of that are coming soon.