Snagged

We left town for a week when the roof was supposed to be going up, and returned home with a message on the answering machine from the contractors. They basically said that the carpenter got to our site, took one look at the framining, called the inspector and put everything on hold. For a wall taller than 10 feet, apparently you can't just put a truss on the end and call it a day.

They were saying that we needed to tear down the end wall that doesn't have a loft/ceiling which would tie everything and have an engineer design a new wall. This would be a big set back. This would also cost a lot of money, but we are not to be deterred! I called the truss manufacterer, went over the scenario and came up with an alternative solution that only requires replacing the top plate (the horizontal 2x6 boards across the top) on the end wall with a ledge that will go from edge to edge. I'm pretty excited about this change, even though it will mean undoing some of what we did to get the walls framed. At the end of the day, we'll have a ceiling height ledge at the fireplace end of the cabin that we can put our antique cabin tchotchkes on. The boards for the ledge will be 24 feet long, and 16 inches wide, so I'm not sure exactly how we're going to get them installed... well, I now know how we will be spending our 4th of July weekend.....