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We are finally making progress! During the first week of December we cleared out all of the rental spaces in San Francisco where we were storing the interior mouldings, doors and windows. All interior material was then stored in the basement of a rental house we have on the property. We also finished laying the plywood subfloor over the basement level. On December 6th we moved the exterior walls, floor joists, and roofing that we had been storing on a football field sized lot near the Santa Rosa Airport to their new home. On Thursday December 8th, we started errecting the first exterior wall on the front of the building. We needed to install sole and header plates, which the old Victorian balloon framing lacked. Then we lifted the wall into position with a grade-all and braced it to hold it in place. Although it was cold, in the 40's, the weather cooperated with us until December 16th, when the rains started drenching our worksite. We are still working around the weather, trying to get enough walls up to sucessfully tarp the first floor before we get more rain. We hope to have all first floor walls up by New Years Day. Phillips House Update January 2006 The month of January was cold, damp, and rainy, but we continued to work in spite of the weather. Russian River actually went three feet over its banks on New Years Day, severely flooding the region. We managed to finish framing the entire first floor and placed the floor joists between the first and second floor. We ended the month by placing the plywood on the second floor. Now hopefully we can tarp out the rain. Phillips House Update February 2006 The weather was still working against us during the month of February so we stalled building the second story walls until Spring. We did manage to put plywood sheerwall up on the new walls and placed Simpson stongties throughout the first floor so that we could meet California earthquake codes. We had to reconstruct all first floor windows, as the original building had been constructed using balloon frame construction, the windows lacked proper headers and Jack and King studs. We are now at a standstill...just waiting for the weather to clear up so we can start building upward.
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