I know everyone is excited about the truss update, but we have some more ground to cover before we get there.
So, under the "Snagged" update below, we explained how we were all set to have the trusses put up and the roof installed a couple of weeks ago when out of the blue the carpenter raised concerns about one of our walls, essentially saying it wasn't going to be good enough to pass inspection and he wouldn't put the trusses up on it.
In a bit of a fit, I called the guy at the truss company, who I swore told me that there was some special thing I could do to avoid the real expensive option of having an engineered wall designed and built by a professional. He confirmed that there were two other options: a special heavy duty ledge, and adding special bracing to the end truss. But after checking with the engineer, the special bracing option (the least expensive option, and the one I wanted) wouldn't work. Super ledge it is!
So for a couple of hundred dollar, he sent me this:
That thick horizontal line is the special board, two-plys of laminated lumber, 4 inches thick, and 16" deep, stretching the full length of the wall.
This is what the monster looks like in person:
With some huffing, puffing and a couple of if-this-goes-wrong-I-might-be-pinned-against-the-wall-with-my-chest-getting-crushed moments, Katie and I finally got one of the two boards up into position:
Hot, sweaty, but satisfied, we decided to leave the second one for a day when we had a few more hands.
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