6 - Finishing Up the Framing

Once we got the floor base compacted by our excavator (afternoon of 2 July), we were able to finish framing out the side walls and added the front walls.

We also added the header for the garage door and the wall section above the header.  We could never have done this entire project without our brother-in-law.  There is nothing this man doesn't know how to do.

This is an awkward photo....walls up, installing door, and we get caught in a picture by my wife chatting and looking like we don't know what's going on....  This is never the case.

With walls and the front header up, it was time for the truss delivery.  Our trusses span 24 feet, and there are 19 of them at 24 inch spacing across the side walls to extend the 36 foot length of the structure.  The trusses have a 13-1/2 foot wide opening with knee walls at 52-1/2 inches, a ceiling at 90-1/2 inches high (7-1/2 feet) measuring 76-1/4 inches across.

A month before we planned to build, we sent a copy of our building plans to LaPointe Lumber, who then turned them over to Mainly Trusses, to custom build our trusses to adhere to Maine building code.  Mainly Trusses delivered our order right on schedule with them being dropped off on July 3rd.

Where do these trusses go?  They go up--on top of those walls.  Each truss weighed about 100 pounds.

It was coming together.