San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in progress, Part IX

San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in Progress, Part IX by Eric Fitts, Director Framing continued, with Eric, Gemma, Patrick McGinnis, Bernadette, and Dorothy pitching in. Soffit was painted and installed. North and south gable wall sheathing was completed. Next steps are constructing the entry roof over the loft door, installing underlayment on the sheathing, … Continue reading San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in progress, Part IX

San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in progress, Part VI

San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in Progress, Part VI by Eric Fitts, Director Framing continued with Summer Servants (with and without Eric) plugging along on a couple ordinary weeks between groups. We installed the remaining roof columns and roof headers, with the highest headers forming the ridgepole, 14.5 feet above the loft floor, installed … Continue reading San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in progress, Part VI

San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in progress, Part III

San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in Progress, Part III by Eric Fitts, Director A shortened ordinary week meant only three days on site, but we had the loft floor decking complete by Tuesday at lunch, north wall blocking finished by the end of the day, first floor north wall sheathing complete on Wednesday, and … Continue reading San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in progress, Part III

San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in progress, Part I

San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in Progress, Part I by Eric Fitts, Director An update is overdue! The Shelter-Kit framing kit arrived on a 54-foot truck and trailer with 33,000 lbs of materials. Since the truck could not get up our 1/2-mile driveway, it took all afternoon and the next morning to get the … Continue reading San Damiano Center for Sustainability: Framing in progress, Part I