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The roof beginsThis was day one of the roof beginning. 2 men and a younger man showed up with tools, welders, some scaffolding and started work assembling our roof. I'm guessing 10 days to 2 weeks to complete the steel work and get ready for the tile.pklongball
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Box BeamsA little closer look at the welds that hold the beam section togetherpklongball
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Box BeamsHere we have a completed section of the box beam.pklongball
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Box Beams17 Feb 2009 They started the day measuring the "C" channel and cutting to length and welding pieces together to get the correct lengths and then sandwiched two pieces together to make a bx beam. Each length will span several columns to form the support for the rest of the roof structure.pklongball
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The roof begins18 Feb 2009 second day of roof work. The first section of the steel box beam is raised into position and then welded. Many more to go but we have a good start.pklongball
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Raising the RoofSecond day of the roof build and we have some progress. 2 beams are now in place and by the end of the day at least 5 will be welded in place. Some other work also started on the forms for the front steps by the old foundation/beam teampklongball
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21 Feb 2009Today we can see the addition of a tall section of scaffolding. They brought this in today as the work on the upper sections of the steel will start and they need to have something high to work from.pklongball
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21 Feb 2009Closer view of the steel work to date.pklongball
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21 Feb 2009Longshot of the roof steel progress.pklongball
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21 Feb 2009The crawl space access is being closed in also. First a small footing is built then some blocking will be added. I also told him I wanted some vents in this area on bouth sides of the house for getting some fresh air under the house. The vents will be built to keep any and all the unwanted "guests" from entering the space.pklongball
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26 Feb. 2009It's been a week now since they started working on the roof steel and now we finally can see a shape. This work is some of the most difficult I've seen on my place and the sun is not relenting at all. Very hot every day and the scaffold work can't be easypklongball
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