Minecraft House

09:32 Saturday, 5 September 2026

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On Monday the trusses should be delivered. There's at least one more course, possibly two, of blocks to stack. Once that's done, the end truss will be landed and secured to the gable. That will also serve as a template for locating the lookouts for the roof beams for the covered deck. Once those are marked, the affected blocks will be removed, cut and re-stacked. Hopefully we'll get it poured sometime next week.

Then we'll land the remaining roof trusses for the vaulted ceiling. Brad wants to do the interior framing for the main floor beneath the attic trusses before landing them. So that's probably (hopefully) next week. There's less framing on the main floor than there was on the basement, so it should go rather quickly. Then we'll get the attic trusses up, and the roof decking on.

We also have to pour the footers for the deck and the porch, stack chimney black for the timber columns, backfill everything and pour and stamp the patio before the timber-frame deck and porch arrive, mid-October.

Windows and doors should be arriving around then, and hopefully we'll get the place dried in.

Still have to get NYSEG, the electric utility, out to hang the second transformer; then pull the cable from the meter pedestal to the house and get the breaker panel installed.

Then we can start rough wiring and plumbing.

We hope to get the metal roofing on once the deck and porch are assembled, and the metal board-and-batten siding as well. There will be stone veneer beneath the deck, but that can wait until spring.

We're getting there.

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