3D Framing!
🔨 📐 Woot! 📐 🔨

The First Half of August 2024
Framing has become 3 D!
It's getting exciting!

The picture below is a slideshow and the pictures will change every seven seconds. To see a static picture, click on the dot below the picture.

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August 1st, 2024
Got a huge flat spot (the main floor subflooring) to start August

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August 1st, 2024
same level starting point as seen from the center back

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August 1st, 2024
Same flat level August starting point as seen from a slightly different angle

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August 2nd, 2024
Framing for the first wall! It is starting to look 3D!
(note: that dot in the sky is a Hawaiian hawk flying by)

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August 5th, 2024
Nick & Ethan setting up another portion of wall framing

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August 6th, 2024
a view from the more or less center back

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August 7th, 2024
view from the center back a day later

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August 13th, 2024
☂ ☔ Nick & Ethan working in the rain! ☔ ☂

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August 14th, 2024
"front" door on the left (it's actually on the side of the house) and big kitchen window on the right side of the picture

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August 16th, 2024
the 'front door', the big dining room area and then the big kitchen window

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August 20th, 2024
as seen from the driveway below the avocado plateau

This project is on a sloped lot so keeping soil where it should be is a bit of a challenge. ( Especially with tropical rain which occasionally gets so heavy you don't want to look up with your mouth open during a rainfall so you don't drown. 😁 )

A friend gave us this really heavy culvert type "tin roofing" several years ago and it's kinda been sitting around waiting for a use. We used some of it several years ago when renovating the little house to landscape the yard. It worked well for that so now we're using it to keep the soil around the lower foundations on this house. It's really heavy galvanized metal and is what is used to make culverts so it should last quite awhile. At some point, we may replace it with some sort of concrete blocks, or perhaps some really big rocks?

The digger sure is a useful critter! Seems we're always finding new ways to use it. This culvert "tin" is really really heavy! Which is a good thing for longevity and durability, but not so good when it needs to be moved into place for installation.

The culvert panels have bolt holes along all the edges so a chain can be shackled between two of them and then the digger can easily lift the panels without damage. Once they're close to being in place, the digger can then push them to where they should be. The panels are then bolted together and they will hopefully stay that way.

The possible new roofline is almost visible. As the sticks get up to the skyline, we can almost - although not quite at this point - visualize what the final roof will look like. It's supposed to be a big gable roof on this end with two smaller gables on either side. There is a bit of split pitch to the big roof, but there isn't as much difference between the two pitches as was originally planned.

The two middle beams are for the "Crow's Nest" lanai which will be on the upper loft level. They are actually to stiffen the front wall of the house, but instead of putting in just one cross beam, a second one was added and then some flooring to make a 'catwalk' which will be across the living room ceiling.

August 4th, 2024

This is the same view from slightly different viewpoints. It's the center back of the house with the bedroom on the right side and the kitchen on the left. There is still a covered carport back here somewhere, although it's more of a pile of lumber at this point than anything else.

August 10th, 2024

The view from the avocado plateau. The big twenty four foot long glulam roof beams are at the bottom of the lumber pile in the foreground of the picture. We should dig them out of there and start sanding them since it's a lot easier to sand and stain lumber that is flat to the ground instead of way the heck up at the peak of the ceiling.

August 13th, 2024
center of the house framing

It's kinda hard to make heads and tails of the framing at the center of the house. There's the wall on the left side of the picture which is the wall between the living room and the "room of requirement" (it's got a moving bookcase "secret" entrance from the living room and can either be a library or a bedroom so it can be whatever is required as long as either a bedroom or library is required.) In the middle of the picture is the framing in the stair area. The right side of the picture is basically the view from the 'front' door through to the kitchen door. There are a lot of long viewplanes in this house, it's gonna feel huge.

The big empty space between the wood framing in the foreground on the right side of the picture and the framing at the back of the picture will be the dining area. That is gonna be better than expected, I think. We are beginning to get the feel of the spaces now that the framing is becoming "3D".

August 13th & 15th, 2024
every project needs some weather occasionally?

It's mid-summer so the weather has been pretty good overall, but we've had a few rainy days and even a few foggy days. Nick & Ethan as well as anybody else they have helping them all seem pretty weatherproof and they just show up and keep working no matter what the weather seems to be doing.

August 16th, 2024

This is a view from behind the workshop on the Waipio side of the new house. We're beginning to see roof beams as well as some framing up at the center peak of the house so we can start to visualize the final height of the house.

August 16th, 2024
beams for the "catwalk" across the living room

The two big beams across the top of this picture are for the 'catwalk' across and above the living room. Initially, during the design phase - the possible issue was how to reinforce the front wall of the house since it overlooks the ocean and has a lot of exposure to direct ocean winds. It seemed a good idea to have some sort of support, but we weren't sure what. A beam over from the loft was suggested since that was better than one coming down from the center roof ridge beam. Then, if one is good, how about two and a catwalk out to a crow's nest lanai up in the top gable of the house? Ha! What a brilliant idea!

August 5th, 2024
a really teeny Jackson

This is the most itty bitty teeny tiny Jackson chameleon I've ever seen. The little guy was trying to walk across the driveway. He's a male, even the teeny tiny ones like this guy have itty bitty horns on their heads. Since this little guy is chicken-snack sized, he's been relocated to the fenced in garden where he will hopefully get a chance to grow big enough to where he is no longer a possible chicken snack.

An adult Jackson chameleon can get up to well over a foot long, although I'm not sure if they can get to two feet long. But, this little guy isn't anywhere near that length yet, so he needs to be somewhere safe from marauding chickens.

They also change colors, he is about as dark as I've ever seen one, they will usually be more leaf colored, but he had been walking on soil before trying to cross the driveway. Generally they are more green, but generally they are more in the leaves. Not that I know much about Jackson's, other than meeting up with them here and there in the yard. Maybe they turn dark when they get picked up and taken off to gardens?