Here are some pictures of a house I’m framing right now.
The house has some interesting things about it which photograph pretty well.
The oval room/hall is located in the center of the house and connects the foyer, great room, master suite, and library/music room.
Hope you enjoy.
You can see more photos at the weblog i’ve started.
http://t-mcnamara.blogspot.com/index.html
Upgrading the footings and columns that support a girder beam is an opportunity to level out the floor above.
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Well that is something out of the ordinary. Thanks for posting these pics. Please continue, this would be a fun one to watch.
You in this till completion?
A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
Thanks for the response. I'm just framing this one.
I've made a point of taking pics on this one.
I might post more as we go along.
Rochester I see. My father was from there (many many yrs ago).
Is there a nun-ery there? If i'm remembering correctly and this too was over 50 yrs ago-near that monastery or nunnery was a GREAT italian rest. Seems it was near a downtown area maybe.
Thanks for taking the time with the pics and postings.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
Good looking shots there, are the openings in your oval walls going to have doors in them?
In the first few pics it looks like you are cutting out round plates, and your room is an oval. Are the round plates part of the oval? I may be looking at them wrong too.
Looks like your plate heights are all over the place as well, does it have a trussed or stick frame roof?
Sorry about all the questions I stand studs up for a living too.
You guys get any snow yet? On the frame we are doing now theres about 4-5" on the subfloor now. Makes a better hockey rink than a house. :)
The openings will have arched tops, and will be cased(no doors).
The lower seven foot wide openings will have level tops with the openings/windows above them arched.
We made our headers 3/8's narrow on both sides (of the width) to receive plywood later which we will cut our arches in.
We experimented with making our headers first with bending azek with relief cuts in it, which was okay but then we resorted to bending layers of 3/8's cdx and 7/16's osb.
The plates look round in some of the early photos, but they are part of the oval, a perspective thing.
The roof is all rafters no trusses, with 26 hips, 24 valleys, 7 and 10 pitches, and enough different wall heights to keep me up a night, if I think about it too much.
Our deck is pretty much an ice rink right now as well.
Stilleto, you do some great work yourself thanks for your response and questions.
Very interesting frame job you have going. One I would like to work on for sure. I like the out of the ordinary framing. Arches, curves, barrels etc..
I thought about the circular plates being parts of the oval but wasn't sure.
Keep up with the pictures, I'd like to see more of it as you guys progress.
BTW how many sq. ft is that one? Looks big.
I am framing a small ranch now, first ranch in 4 years. Kind of a nice change.
Thanks for the cool pictures.
Edited 1/21/2007 3:07 pm ET by Stilletto
Like everybody else, I'm looking forward to seeing this one come along. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us.
David, I'm enjoying your screen porch photos. Keep sending the photos.Thanks for the response.
They are great pics. You will have to keep us posted with pictures. The roof will definetly be interesting.
I'll be tuning in on this one!
great stuff. i like construction out of the norm. Hope you can post some when it's done
nice blog site with all the pics. one question though , do you free hand all your radi ?
For the oval room the architect gave us the overall dimensions.I looked up the formula for tracing an elipse, laid it out for the first set of wall plates, cut them, then went to town with the router and a panel cutting bit for the rest.
Where's our updated pictures?
You can't post a house like that and leave me hanging!
We've spent more time scraping ice and shoveling snow the past two weeks it seems, but we are making progress. Here are some photos from the past two weeks. I love bastard hip roofs. If I could do them all the time I think I would. I tried to inbed the photos in the post, but paste isn't a option after copying them. I don't know what to do with that.Hope you enjoy the photos. You can see more at. http://www.t-mcnamara.blogspot.com/
That is one cut up house.
Winter came at the wrong time for you guys.
We are digging our jobs out everyday too. Makes progress slow.
What about bastard hips do you like so much?
On bastard hips do you make the overhangs the same length and offset the ridge? Or run the ridge over the buildings corner and have two different overhangs?
Good pictures, be safe, those plates are slick this time of year.
BTW cool site, alot of good pictures there too.
Edited 1/28/2007 7:04 pm ET by Stilletto
I like the challenge of bastard hip roofs. We usually keep our overhangs the same, and adjust our wall heights to work.As you know the hips are thrown off to the steeper side, so I usually make the steeper side wall(which is taller) the longer of the two walls at the corner.I hope this makes sense.This house is so cut up that half of the valleys are applied, which makes things go a little slower.We're having fun with it.Keep warm.
Makes sense to me, I saw on your web site that is what you were doing.
Are you guys just framing it? Or are you doing other jobs as well? How many on your crew?
I would be having fun with it too, it's a good looking house. Alot of sawdust to be made there.
Applied valleys? Whats that mean? Maybe called something else here.
I'm just a stud stander like you.My crew right now is four full-time , one part time.Over winter break I had two of my college kids, and my brother helping out for a few weeks, so we were jamming with the great weather.By applied valley I mean a valley pad.