Get­ting the addi­tion project under­way has been quite a jour­ney so far. I’ve learned more about shear walls, wind loads and rain screens that maybe I really want to know. Get­ting a SIP project (walls, roof and floor in this case) through the per­mit­ting process means that every­thing has to be engi­neered. If I wanted to build a SIP dog­house — you guessed it: engi­neer­ing …
But some­day it may all be done. But since I’ve been told that there is a proverb that goes some­thing to the effect “House done, Life over” maybe I shouldn’t get in too big a rush.
In the mean­time, here is a ren­der­ing of 6’5″ Sketchup man walk­ing from the addi­tion through the breeze­way with clerestory win­dows onto the floor of the extant struc­ture. With the rainy sea­son fast approach­ing I sup­pose I will need to turn the wall and roof lay­ers back on soon!Technorati Tags: SIPs, Bun­galoft, build­ing, remod­el­ling