Just like Roger Rabbit, our house is being framed!  Woohoo!

I have never had a house built for me before and thus far in this process have had some erroneous preconceived notions obliterated.  For example, I always thought the frame was completely vertically constructed, *always*.  Not true.  The framing subcontractor for our house horizontally built the walls that were erected today (I love that word).  The studs, the windows framed out, the Tyvek, everything was put together on the subfloor and lifted into place.  Boom, a so called pre-fabbed wall up in seconds (or so it seemed).  Maybe all or many, many are done like this, but I don’t think so because I’ve driven by and seen too many framed skeletons get their walls and then their walls get the Tyvek or whatever the builder is using.  The builder was on site today and I mentioned my amazement at the process, even down to the Tyvek.  His rejoinder was, ‘it is called House Wrap after all, not House Flap.’  Made me laugh out loud cuz I have seen Tyvek flapping in the wind on a few houses being constructed.  The Tyvek on this house is not moving, I tell ya, not nary an inch.

Later, in the early evening after John and I had had our dinner and the framers had gone home to their own, John and I returned to the house with a ladder.  We snuck into our own house like neighborhood kids trespassing to check out the new house on the street while wondering if there was going to be a “new kid on the block” living there, would it be a he or a she, a cool kid or the opposite.  We walked the subfloors, peered out the two thus far framed windows and enjoyed the roofless panoramic view.

It’s a great house already!