The timber trusses have become a bit more time intensive than I think anyone ever expected. This has always been our problem and it continues to be. In the picture below Matt and Trav are playing teeter totter trying to get the timber to split the rest of the way. After awhile of trying to get it.
Monday the girls and I went up to take dinner and to do some work. I feel so helpless with most of the work since I have 3 little side kicks that come with me everywhere I go. So I took down a lot of the bracing now that the roof is sheeted. Hallie's job was to remove the nails from the 2x4 so that they would be safe and able to be used elsewhere in the house. Grandpa even taught her about a fulcrum and how it makes it easier to get the nails out. She is getting really good at it.
Wednesday night while trying to put up the big timber Matt got his thumb smashed between the reach fork prongs and the timber. It looked pretty bad but we were able to dress it for the night and then Thursday morning Matt went to the instacare where they poked holes in his fingernail to relieve the pressure and redressed it. It is healing really well but it has caused Matt a lot of pain unfortunately. We are just glad it wasn't worse
Thursday evening they finally got up the big timber truss after the accident Wed night. Things like this are a short lived celebration when you step back and see how much we have left to do
We got a bid to have the AV done in the house for surround sound, music speakers, cameras for security, and all of our internet, phone, and data connections. The bid came back and was over 2700 dollars. Matt really is capable of running the wire but has no time to do that. So I called my dad on Tuesday to see if he would be willing to come up and run all the wire for us. He was so great and the next day had a plan in place to come up and run all the wire as well as getting us a good price on the wire. It was more than I could have ever asked. Saying thank you 100 times will never express how much we appreciate my dad driving 8 hours each way alone, using his vacation days, and running all the wire himself. It was fun to spend a couple days just visiting while he ran wires and I did a few other projects around the house. With him doing it and getting us a good deal on wire we got more than we even wanted for less than 600 bucks!
The girls have been really good to help. They were in charge of moving the wood and plumbing supplies so I could sweep the floor so it would be ready for the guys to frame it in.
On Saturday the 2nd and final truss went up. It really had to get up since the rental place was coming to get the reach fork on Monday...time was of the essence. They are going to look great and just another hurdle to jump to get to the finish line of finishing this house.
Im so ready for the framing part of this journey to be over! I have never seen Matt this stressed and I think we are both over the long hours he is working. We both feel stuck between a rock and a hard place we want to quit but if we do nothing progresses so we just keep swimming.
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