Framing

(September-October)
We started framing walls in late September. What's laid out here was a pretty great idea. The deck consists of four steel poles about 14' in the air, and four glulam beams running from the house out through saddles in the poles, cantelivering about four feet beyond the poles. Then a 33' gluelam beam bolted to the ends of the cantilivered beams, so the question was, how do we get that 33' beam out in mid-air and bolted in place.
Trust Jim. He came up with the idea of assembling the whole structure upside down on the house floor, hinging the house ends of the cantiliver beams and swinging the whole thing up and over and into place.
So here you can see the beams that run out from the house with the 33' beam bolted to the ends.
The structure is being lifted up and then will swing down into the brackets on the tops of the poles.
Over the top and now down to the bracket, which you can see toward the lower middle/right.
More framing.
Here we've got the walls up and are about ready to start on the front beams.
The west wall of this house consists of three 8'x8' patio doors with sidelights, and six 6'x6' windows above - making the whole west wall pretty much glass.
First we brought in a small crane to place the main vertical gluelam beams, then lifted the patio door headers (more gluelams) into place.
Then we brought the crain back to place the 33' glue lam that runs along the top of the verticals.
A close-up of the connection between the vertical gluelam and the gluelam patio door headers.
That's what that wall looks like after we got the gluelams in place. It looks out to the northwest, at the ocean with Proposal Rock in the background. Not too shabby a view.