The detailed report that you have been sharing with us is a great lesson or at least a reminder of just how much has to be done to dream about a project like this, design it and then adjust the design for real world situations.... all of the details large and small.
...just getting a very talented and hard working team together takes much more than luck... and as you've shown... only you can make sure that everyone stays on the same page. You have to be there.
You have introduced me to the "new" laminated beams. Makes me want to do a project with them.
As a kid I worked on 26 new houses... my dad and a few of his buddys built them. They worked us kids and paid us a fair wage. We were never assigned to our own fathers... so we never got screamed at.
I can still remember seeing plywood being used for sheathing for a roof for the first time. It was 1951... and it was on someone elses build in a different part of town. Another builder stopped by our job to ask my dad about the plywood sheathing... we all quit a little early that day to go for a look.
I can still remember standing there, looking up at the 3/4" plywood... echoing the men "... it'll never last"
When I go back to St Albans, WV I sometimes check on that house... it's still standing and looking good... I think it's probably going to out last me.
Just seeing the frame work blossoming in your pictures and your narritive gives me an almost uncontrolable itch to build something.
Looking forward to your next update... and the memories it will evoke!
Sleepy
