Day 27: We've got a second floor

The deck for the second floor was installed today and the 4 25-foot LVL's were raised into place. The LVLs are the same ones that were going to be installed in the way of the garage door opening, but are raised up now to be out of the way of the door. Bryan says that the big challenge is that the gable-end wall now needs to be built in place rather than being built on the desk and raised. Nonetheless, he says that walls should be going up on the second floor tomorrow.

Here's an action shot of Robert, doing, um, something on the new deck.

And here's a shot of the 4 LVL's that will be the base of the front wall of the upstairs

Cheryl and I are still grappling with kitchen design questions (e.g. 36" range or 30" range? 6' window or 5' window?). We also had questions on whether we wanted a 2x2 or 3x2 grid for a couple of windows, and what we wanted to do about the roof overhang for the addition. Both helpful questions since the plans specify things but Mike and Bryan correctly questioned the wisdom of these so we're reconsidering.

More Day 27 pictures.