Rafters and Roof

The addition went from a muddy backyard to a recognizable structure fairly quickly. The walls were done and a few days later our contractor and his workers got the rafters up in about two days. Since there is only so much you can say about rafters, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

In the picture above, you can see how the rafters rest on what used to be the outside wall of the house and then are tied into the rafters in the attic of the original structure. It all ended up being very solid and very straight forward.

After the rafters were in but before the roof membrane went on, they did build the boxes for the four skylights we have planned. There will be two each in two of the rooms. Here they set them in place but they haven't been installed yet.

While the roof is called "flat" that really just means it has a low slope. Over the width of the roof it only drops about 3 or 4 inches which is plenty to get the water moving and down into the gutter.  A neat thing about the roof material we went with with is that it actually white to help reflect the heat and not absorb it the way a dark colored roof would. It is also really tough and the overlaps are heat sealed. It went on in only one day. (No, it didn't snow. It is that white.)

The plan is to get the addition reasonably sealed so that it can be tied into the rest of the house's heating while the interior work is being done. Part of that involves moving the washer and dryer to their new location in the still building utility room. Here is the wall that houses the plumbing for that. It had to be made of 2x6s to allow enough space for everything.



And that same wall from the other direction. This will be the wall to right in the utility room as you walk out of the house and into the addition through the  "Crawfish Memorial Hallway and Kitchen Bypass." We will be installing an EZ Pass Hot Lane.

So far so good. We have holidays coming up but it looks like we will have a weather/water proof addition tied into the house by the end of the year.