Finalizing roofing..

The day was spent racing to finish the roofing because had very nice weather all day. We finished off placing the final roof joists. We added the necessary cross braces also where needed. We then cut the roof joists all to length because they were overhanging needlessly when we initially put them up. It looks much more like a roof now. This was done in place with a skill saw quite easily. Then we took to the roof. The first project was to remove the tyvek house wrap which was keeping us mostly dry. Then we turned all the plywood sheets around the other way to add support to the whole structure. We then added more plywood to cover the remaining roof joists which were still exposed. We made a template and system which we used to decide how to place our screws and then nails. The plywood sheets facing towards the most exposed face of the house are all screwed down to add support. The remaining inside sheets are then nailed by following our pattern. It is important because when we screw our roof down we don't want to be hitting any nail / screw heads. We almost finished the nailing when it got dark, so tomorrow we will finish that task. Then come two layers of tar paper which will add some waterproofing to the roof before we put up the steel decking. On outer "rim" board will cover the end of these joists and  add further support. We'll have more pictures of that later when we get there. We hope to at least have the tar paper down tomorrow so we will be totally waterproof at that point and no worries about any sudden rain showers.

You can see how nicely the front area has been brought up to grade and levelled now.

Our rather wet plywood sheets.

This is how we install the roof joists. The flange is screwed to the large beam using a 3 inch screws. Then we will use hurricane ties to hold it even more securely.

View from the roof to the front eventual deck area.

Finalizing the TJI joists and roof decking.

We rotated all the roof plywood as suggested by several of our friends. It provides more support this way then the way we had it.

We used 2 screws close to the leading edge where wind would like to tear it up. There never has been a hurricane here since records have been kept, but its worth the couple of seconds extra it takes.