It’s been a while since my last post on the blog – in the last month we’ve had amazing progress.

After the ICF was completed, Richard, John and Michel switched to doing the floor decks. This involved first installing all the supporting steel beams, followed by the floor joists, and finally the plywood subfloor. As expected, this was more complicated than we anticipated, but we got it completed in time to allow the Gibson Timberframe crew to start raising the timberframe.

The finished subfloor

The timberframers then arrived and started assembling the frame. It is quite amazing to see some 200 pieces of pre-cut lumber get unloaded and assembled to form the skeleton of our house. Even more amazing that the pieces all fit!

The frame got raised over the last couple of weeks and was completed at the end of last week.

Timberframe - the first bentTimberframe - the great room almost completeLifting the main ridge into placeThe frame is almost complete

The Gibson crew has now moved on to installing the SIP panels over the roof and walls. You can see the roof panels below over the great room:

SIP panels pver the great room

They are continuing to put panels up all week and next – we should have this part completely closed in sometime late next week. In the meantime, Richard and John have continued the ICF over the master bedroom, but have been diverted for a few days to install the pine T&G ceiling over the second floor roof in the timberframe (we are installing the pine ceiling before the SIP panels are installed).Â