Just Sheet It!

Today started out a little rough. I was cleaning out my car before my mom and step-dad got here, and had put a pair of slip on tennies on. Well, halfway to the build site I noticed they were still on my feet! WHOOPS! So my stepdad went to the build site and I had to come back home for my workboots!

When I got there and asked Ross where he wanted me, I was SURE he was going to tell me to help with the slab insulation. BUT NO!!! :) Much to my delight, I was assigned to help with sheeting. Ahren and my step-dad were framing the house next to the one I was working on, so I didn't even have to be bossed around by them all day! :) Sheeting means nailing boards to your frame. Every six inches (which is about the width of the head of your hammer) you lay a nail down. Well, I worked with Anna and Josh and Daniel. Anna and I were just excited not to be doing slab insulation or mudsilling! We joked, and laughed at each other, and laughed at the boys, and had a great time. It's amazing to build relationships with the same people you're building your neighborhood with!! I told Anna I was going to call her "one-gun", because she's going to have one BULGING bicep after all this hammering! After the sheeting was finished, we moved up to the second story and started laying FLOOR on the second floor! SO EXCITING! It LOOKS like a house...well, here...I'll show you:

That's not even a good picture. I was clearly so excited by my new job assignment I didn't get a proper picture! The house next to the one I was working on was finishing out framing, and when I left they were putting up all the floor joists for the second story! :)

Hammering for five hours does make for a tired arm/sore hand. I will be purchasing a pair of better padded gloves, and suddenly the 50 dollars more for a hammer that weighs half of what mine does doesn't seem like a bad idea! "one-gun" looked over at me at one point and said "This is house 1...OF 12!" :) It's totally true. No one said it was going to be easy...but SO worth it! :)

So Tina's house is looking very house-like, all the sheeting is up on the bottom floor, and when I left half of the second floor subflooring was down. (I'm assuming the plywood you glue and nail to the joists is sub flooring, but I could be wrong.) Zahn's house was getting all it's joists for the second story put in, and the house next to Zahns was being framed. A few more houses had slab, and someone even had their garage poured! Our house is the only house that isn't mud silled or slab insulated...we are waiting for them to run plumbing. I'm not so anxious anymore for it to be "our" house, because I know there is PLENTY to be done, and in the end, we all get there at the same time!

I don't have any pictures of me, as Ahren and Alan were looking too busy for picture taking, so I'll leave you with one of "one-gun" Anna nailing down some sub-floor. I think I better go ice my arm now while I can still move it!

Your Happy Housebuilder,
Heather