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Starting in August, phase 2 begins. Perhaps you will be there. This shows how it will go. First everything inside gets demo-ed (even in the laundry and southeast corner); all the interior walls get stripped down, ceilings, attic everything down to the framing. Before we start taking down the frame there are two footings to pour under the house and two more in the front for the new porch.

Next, the exterior, the roof, the north wall and the northeast front living room wall will come down. Some of the sheathing is solid planks that could be reused (maybe as fence), same goes for some cedar shingles and two-by stock.

Destruction complete, construction ensues, first the northeast gable wall and the new living room wall. Stairs finally, then the other first floor exterior wall on the north side. There are two big posts that hold up the roof. They will each be 4-2x8's and they extend from first floor to roof and will interlock with the walls they are adjacent to.

To the left of the stairs there will be a deck ~6x10 that extends from the phase 1 addition to the center of the front space, canterlevered over the wall next to the post and sitting on the wall alongside the stairs. We'll put a couple of temporary supports under the canterlevered end.

On the right of the stairs there will be another little deck, this one triangular. Now the geometry is triangulated and the walls are locked into place. We can work on these decks putting in the knee walls for the roof that continues from the rear addition.

There is a beam, a pretty substantial 6x10, about 250lbs. To put it in we will first put in the outer 2x10 rafters, having them bear on the big vertical posts. From the posts to where the beam will land there will be short 3x10 pieces cut at an angle and