David and Michelle's Add On

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Welcome! David and Michelle's latest project is an add-on to their mobile home. This web site has some pictures of the process.

Previewing how the add-on might look.
Charlie doing some thinking, planning, and drawing.
David clearing the building site with a weed-eater.
David and Matthew mixing cement for home-made pier blocks.
A couple thousand dollars worth of lumber being dumped at the site.
Charlie taking a five gallon bucket form off of a home-made pier block.
Screwing supports onto the twenty-four foot 6X6 post to make sure it doesn't fall over.
Working the next post up into position.
David taking a snooze after some hard work of lifting 6X6's up onto pier blocks.
Charlie taking a snooze while David works.
Eating dinner, which was delivered right to the work site, after a long day of hard work.
David and Matthew working on the upper floor joists.
Upper floor joists finished.
David and Matthew putting up a 6x6 post for the lower floor.
David unloading his 449 thousand mile 'truck.''
David getting a drink.
Working on the lower floor joists.
David and Matthew blocking between the floor joists.
Charlie cutting boards for blocking.
David tapping a block into position.
A preview of what kind of roof angle will be used.
David stapling tyvek to the floor joists.
Suzanne screwing the upstairs floor down.
Putting the wall frame in to hold up the rafters.
Putting up the rafters.
Charlie getting ready to connect two pieces of ridge pole together.
Temporary stairs.
David and Matthew screwing rafters into place.
Charlie trimming the extra off of a post.
Charlie straightening a crooked post.
Finishing up the rafters.
David putting blocking between the rafters.
Quitting at about midnight.
Charlie trimming the rafters off at 90 degrees to the ground.
Installing the board on the ends of the rafters.
Putting waferboard on the roof.
Lunch time!
Setting up David's water tank during a break from working on the add-on.
Elizabeth, Brooklyn, and Michael helping scrub moss off of old 2X4's. These old boards will be used to make foot-holds on the roof.
Christina primering the overhang and David putting blocks between the rafters.
Charlie cuts the ridge pole to length.
Charlie laying down on the job.
Michelle screwing the floor down.
Elizabeth setting the screws on the mark and Christina screwing them in.
Everyone helping screw the floor down.
Shopping for lumber at midnight when it is too dark to work.
Everyone helping.
David cutting a notch for a board to sit in to hold up the outside rafter.
Oh no! Someone got a hold of the paint!
David caulking around blocks to make sure no bugs can get through.
Primering the siding.
David puts in blocking while Charlie frames a doorway.
Dinner time.
Putting the last bit of waferboard on the roof.
Putting tar paper on the roof.
Installing the gutter.
Laying out the roofing on the floor to see how it will fit on the roof.
Screwing the roofing on.
Hanging onto the rope while positioning a piece of roofing.
Elizabeth helping get ready to bend a piece of roofing.
Finishing up the roof.
Taking a break to work on Charlie's truck engine.
Michelle moving in.
Christina helping move in.
Wow! Old furniture sure does burn!
Finishing up Charlie's engine.

Tyvek and siding on - Painting in the dark.
Girls painting while David finishes up the siding.
Michelle painting.
Charlie, Christina, and Suzanne painting.
Working after dark again.
Strips of wood ready to be glued together to form the center column for the spiral staircase.
Staircase center column being glued together.
A picture taken of the inside of the new well casing.
Preparing to put the new well casing in.
Rolling the well casing into position.
David cutting holes in the well casing to allow water to seep in.
Charlie playing peek-a-boo!
Well casing getting ready to fall into place.
Michelle pulling buckets of mud up and dumping them. David is at the bottom of the well filling the buckets.
Yuck! What a mess.
Clamping up the walnut spiral rail on a bending jig.
Saran wrap on glue joint to keep clamps from sticking to the glue.
Charlie cutting out large hole for stair riser on center column.
Router and jig to cut riser holes true in the spiral center column.
One word of Isaiah 55:9 engraved on an oak step.
Christina coloring in engraved words with a brown marker.
Peggy coloring in engraved words with a brown marker.
Colored in word.
Beginning to put the staircase together.
Getting ready to mount the rail.
Installing the rail.
Sanding the rail and supports.
Staircase loaded on Charlie's truck - ready for the trip to Brooklyn.
Staircase traveling over the gravel road.
Staircase traveling over the gravel road.
Staircase held upright in the new add-on by ropes.
Everyone helping sand.
Brooklyn and Elizabeth posing on their new staircase.
The completed project.
Completed from a different angle.
Completed from another angle. The extra building is a pump house.

Welcome! David and Michelle's latest project is an add-on to their mobile home. This web site has some pictures of the process.

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