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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 interlocking with both the post and the beam. For now they are temporarily fastened to the rafter, ready to support the beam.

The beam interlocks with the rafter and fits in to the angled support. We can use a block and tackle set on the ridge to lift it into place. Once in place, the sandwich is completed by the installation of the west-edge rafters. Now bolts can be installed closing up the sandwich at the posts, angled section and beam ends.

The rest of the connecting roof can now be finished, each rafter cut at the tail to accommodate soffit and fascia.

The long common rafters from the beam to the front wall can now be installed. Each is notched to sit on top of the beam (so the beam can remain exposed). Some of the rafters will extend out from the wall to accept soffit and fascia though the ones landing in the porch area can be cut flush. Once the common rafters are in we can verify the intersecting planes that indicate the top of the short hip rafters running from each end of the beam to the original ridge. After filling in a few more rafters and futzing with the connection to the little piece of old roof structure, the roof is ready for plywood.

Meanwhile the new front deck can be framed and the porch posts and beam can go in. The last piece is of porch roof will ovelay the main roof.

preliminary schedule

Ideally finish inspections are done for everything in the addition by the 11th. That would likely mean that we had shut down your old house a few days before that and you look like you've moved out when the inspector comes. On the twelfth, for two days the entire inside of your existing house is stripped down to bare studs, filling a big dumpster sitting in your driveway. the next day all the shingles get stripped off the roof. (I go hang out in the waters near Seattle for those days). Another couple of days and we are ready to frame. By the end of the third day of framing you should have rough stairs and a few days after that most of the roof ready to plywood.

While all this is going on you have this temporary wall of plastic blocking off the addition to keep it from getting gross. Now you can pull them down and start living in the house with a modicum of comfort.

Now we can finish framing whatever we need to do in the over the 1st floor bedroom and laundry(now bath). Meanwhile the new porch is getting framed and that roof is getting framed. Then we will extend the gable overhang as needed on the sections we didn't knock down. after that whatever trim buildout needed for roof shingles is done. then the roof shingles. Then the windows and door and you are back to where I left you at the end of last summer.