Two hours in......!
Today the wall sections started going up and we were very happy with the progress. Work got started at about 7:45 this morning and it was freezing after the rain passed through last night. The high was supposed to be 39 and I think we reached that at daylight. By afternoon there were very small snowflakes occasionally falling and a wind chill below freezing. With the subdivision being on a river the wind seems to be colder and it got worse throughout the day.
It was amazing how quick the work seemed to go. When Delinda and I drove up at 9am there were already three walls standing. By the time 10am rolled around about half of the first story was up. We ran into a few minor problems; an exterior cdx panel needing to be removed to level up a beam, a window needing to be removed for the same type adjustment, but all in all it seemed very smooth. One thing that stuck out as we drove to the property was another home being framed around the corner and how much slower the progress was as they built walls on site. We checked back on site around 3pm and stayed until about 4:15 and the last of the first story walls were being put up on the garage. With about 8.5 hours in we had the first story standing.
It was kind of funny at the house listening to the work crew talk about what should have been done differently on the panelized sections. When I consider how many homes I see with framed walls sitting unfinished for weeks, I'll gladly take this route any day.
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