Fisher Brothers installing shingles

We work with many subcontractors who specialize in certain trades, roofing being one of them. I enjoy doing the hard physical labor of roofing but my back sometimes gives me trouble so I personally only occasionally get involved in the actual roofing. Although I did personally stock all 180 bundles of shingles on the roof last week.
We did a job for a customer some time ago and I noticed the roof was very professionally done. I enquired who did the roof and eventually made a connection with the Fisher brothers. They are 5 Amish brothers who started a roofing and siding company called Sunrise Exteriors. The brothers are Steve, John, Daniel, Amos, and Paul. Great guys with a wonderful sense of humor who enjoy hard work.
The temperatures the past few days have been hovering around 95 degrees and extremely humid. The Fisher brothers just kept right on going, doing an excellent job as usual.
Daniel, one of the brothers has not joined the church so he is the designated truck owner and driver. Daniel is the one who is not in black pants and not wearing a shirt.

Plywood on roof, shingles ready to go on.

As you can see the trusses are up, the sheathing is on, and the bundles of shingles are ready to be installed.

I like this view of the house. This was taken from beside the 12th fairway. This spot was where we took our family portrait last year.
We have five Amish brothers coming to help us to install the shingles. The tempetatures are going to be around 98.
Al took this shot from inside our living room looking south.

More Framing Pictures

After some major set backs because of poor engineering on the part of the truss company we started to move ahead setting trusses on Monday afternoon. The trusses were scheduled to arrive Friday as it turned out they did not come till Monday afternoon at 2:00. I had 10 men on site ready to set trusses and put up plywood. This is all we were able to get done Monday.
Bonus room over garage.
Tuesday it rained all day and Wednesday it rained in the morning. Tuesday morning a couple of engineers from the truss company came out to the site to inspect the trusses they made wrong. Four trusses were made wrong and we had to modify a few more. Wednesday we set the rest of the trusses and started to put on plywood. More rain Thursday which made walking on the roof a little dangerous. Slow going.

This shot is from the new road going in.

All the walls are up and we are ready for trusses. View from the twelfth tee.
Front of the house as viewed from Larch Circle.
Front porch and garage.
View from golf course.
View of the back of the house and garage.

The first wall went up today Monday May 13th. It took 8 men to raise it.
David Sangree going for another gas cylinder for the nail gun. He has not had much training but is learning fast.
All the exterior walls up and 8 feet of sheathing.
Front to the house. We left the osb sheathing long around the front doors so we could trim it to the arched entry doors when they come.
One more shot of the gang working.

Foundation and decking

The foundation ins in, the basement walls poured and the main house decking down. YES!!!
As you can see we have had quiet a bit of rain. The foundation is perfectly level because the rain rolled off on all sides equally. The puddles are because we have not put in the posts under the middle bearing beam yet.
Tuesday will be a big day. We are ready to start building the wall. Then next Monday the trusses come.
I spent a lot of time Sunday spraying poison ivy. The lot was neglected and consequently the poison ivy took over. A few sprays of Round Up and it should disappear.

Milestone Progress

Kevin and Max two faithful employees. Drywallers are all finished and now the painters take over.

Kitchen is in all we need now are counter tops.
Painted hallway in on the classroom side.