Framing Update

Here is the progress at the end of day Friday.  It rained Monday, but the rest of the week is supposed to be beautiful.  Trusses are to be delivered this week.  Since we are building a "story and a half," the trusses will sit on the first floor walls and then the upstairs rooms will be framed within the room trusses.

They have chalked all the remaining walls, so I went around with a tape measure this weekend making sure they were correct.  I found one that was incorrect... the wall between the masterbath and closet had our closet at only 5' wide ... that would have been a little snug.  So fortunately I caught that before they framed it. 

The other "disconnect" I'll call it, is the wall between the two doorways that go into the kitchen.  This wall will have the wall oven/microwave cabinet with 2 adjacent cabinets and it was also supposed to have one of the old posts we pulled from the old house standing vertically and holding a horizontal post across the kitchen ceiling (with another vertical post on the other side).  Well, the wall wasn't quite drawn as long as it should have been, so no vertical post.  In fact, we need to have them put an additional stud in both doorways to add 3" to that wall to accommodate the cabinets and trim.  We're still going to have the beam go across the ceiling ... but disappointed I won't have the verticals.  Ah well, part of the building process... it doesn't always go as planned.

And in the category of "I thought I thought of everything..." I measured the height of the laundry room window (34") and the height of the dryer (36") and the depth of the wall (26") and the depth of the dryer from the wall (~30") ... the dryer will have a profile view from the window (which is in the front of the house) and more so if we buy the high efficiency versions in the near future.  It doesn't help that I am having window sills/ stools cased around my windows.  I'll talk with the trim carpenter to see if he has any ideas.  Preston suggested making a lower profile sill which sounded like a good one.  Move the washer and dryer?  Still an option.

P.S. In case you didn't know, you can double-click on the pictures and they get bigger and create a slide show view.

Opening at the left is the front door.  Openings at the right are the door to the deck and living room window .

Here you can see the 2 doorways to the kitchen & eat-in area.  That's the wall that is too narrow.  Through the doorways, you can see (from L-R) the pantry window, kitchen sink window and sliding door.

This is the other side of that same wall (sliding door... kitchen window)

Master bedroom with the last wall still on the floor.  Nice View!!!