It’s weird how construction progresses. It seems like sometimes we work a lot and the progress is slow, and other times, things seem to leap ahead. That was today.

We got up at 5am to get some work in before the heat set in. By noon, we’d not only finished all the remaining parapet walls, but got the back half of the house’s i-joists (ceiling beams) in. Amazing.

To put up the i-joists, we first had to hang  a 2×12 ledger board to which the hangers would attach. (Oh and before that, we had to move a gigantic stack of lumber. More fallout from the delivery without a bobtail.)

(Sorry about the misspelling in this photo; I’m too tired/lazy to fix it.)

On the other side of the ledger, a bracket attaches to each stud to make sure it can carry the weight of the roof. Each bracket has 12 nails in it, and they’re at very difficult-to-get-to angles. Perfect work for the palm nailer!

These are the long i-joists, running the whole width of the house, over our bedroom and the office/laundry.

Here’s the bedroom side. The high wall in the foreground is the back wall of the kitchen, which has (or will have, I guess) a high ceiling like the great room.