Building the Barndominium

We've been here in Texas for a week now and are making substantial progress on the Barndominium.  The first day here was spent setting up the shop in the garage portion.

Notice the open walls.  That's where we'll be building out the walls starting tomorrow.

Going from having the sticks up to getting everything absolutely secured from the slab to the steel beam above the studs took another day or two and then we put up the sheathing and weather coating.

So now it's starting to look like a real house.  The windows are in.  The door is not and the final weather protecting paper isn't installed at the top of the sheathing, but the following day, it's all ready for putting the final covering on - the Hardi Plank.  Here's a picture just prior to Hardi Plank.

Finally, here on the 4th of July, we worked about half a day starting the Hardi Plank.  Here's the fruits of our labors:

 A huge thanks to Joel (second son) who spent the better part of the week with us.  Without him, we would never have gotten this far nor would we have created something as sturdy and attractive as we have.  Thanks Joel!

The next couple of days, we'll be completing the Hardi Plank.  There's caulking to do and then painting the exterior to match the building.  The colors now (a brown and an unattractive yellowish color) are only the natural primers on the Hardi Trim and the Hardi Planks.

It's been a very vigourpous week and a day.  The last two days  have been pretty easy - fairly much a half day on Sunday and the 4th, but it's back to full days tomorrow and Wednesday.