Thursday, June 13, 2013

Second Story vs. Severe Storms

The Amish framing team are miracle workers. Yesterday they completed the first floor, installed windows, and moved to finish most of the second floor. The bonus bedroom in the Victoria Falls is rarely done, maybe that's why they did not do it yesterday, trying to figure out what's the easiest way of putting it together.

Then at about 10PM it started raining and storming with hurricane/tornado force wind and all that. Our mini version of a really big bad storm. So the house is probably ready to grow sprouts if we apply miracle grow.. Will check out the damage after work. The workers left the windows open, and I didn't think of closing them (hey, maybe it was done for a reason). Here is a newspaper picture of the actual storm from a few streets down.




and this is how things looked before the storm started


and two second story panoramas..












10 comments:

  1. Good progress there! Sorry about the storm...hopefully nothing will be touched! Sending some wishes for good weather your way...

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    1. Thanks, this Amish team (M. T. Construction) are very speedy and friendly. They carried on working the next day despite occasional rain and got lots more done. Very impressed.

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  2. You can't worry about the rain, you'll drive yourself crazy. I was concerned about it on our build but things dried out on and we were fine. You have to remember just about every single new home, be it a Ryan or a high-end custom will be exposed to the elements at some point during the build process. As long as the house is dried out before finish work (insulation, drywall) is started, you should be fine. We had puddles of water everywhere, water dripping from the roof to the basement, etc. It had very little impact on the OSB flooring and what little bit did pucker up, was corrected before finish flooring.

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    1. Wisely spoken again. We had basically left it up to God at this point. Why stress out? If it is going to rain it will rain, and if it needs fixing it will be fixed. Otherwise, occasional rain will come and little harm will be done. Though we still worried because it was major rain.. It was fine though when I checked later.

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  3. Those are great pictures. I especially like the first one you took--your house and the golden glow off the wrap. Lovely. I, too, was driven crazy by the idea of water in my house before it was all sealed up nice and tight. Our PM pointed out that hotels and other industrial projects are exposed to the elements for months and months and are fine. As long as it's only a few days or weeks, all the wood should be just fine. Still hurts to think about, though!

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    1. Thank you very much. We love that picture too. We selected the lot especially because the morning room face East spot on, and the front of the house faces West spot on (the other remaining lot was the opposite), and since the family room would be next to the morning room we didn't want the blinding sun coming through into the evening with all those 12 windows on that side of the house, but wanted an elevation with foyer, loft, and enough windows to let that evening sun through.

      Good point about industrial projects, those take much longer and are exposed to the elements more. Never thought of that.

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  4. Hope there wasn't much damage! The thought of the wood getting wet will bother me too I'm sure... but I'm sure it happens to most houses!! Watching for an update since the storm...

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    1. Thank you, it worked out fine, it seems. Lots of water outside, lots of mud inside, more water in the basement, but nothing snapped or broken due to wind. We are grateful.

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  5. I love the panorama pictures! This is so cool! Hopefully, they will clean up any of the mess and you will be right back on track again!

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    1. Thank you. The panoramas are neat, even though they are not very good at displaying the true dimensions of objects in the frame, but they do serve to show the overall state of things, which is great for sharing.

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