The compressor used for the stapling gun to attach the tarpaper to the house.
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Tarpaper was first placed around all the windows and then on the walls. To do the walls a swing stage system was purchased. (The swing stage is a rigid platform suspended by wire cables from the roof joists. It is manually operated by two winches, called "tirpers".) These allow the platform to be positioned at any point up a wall. Brackets are mounted under the roof to carry this. (Some details of a similar bracket for supporting people is shown in the section on roofing.) It was decided to staple the paper onto the house use an air gun. Unfortunately the first compressors tried did not run from the power sources we had available. Luckily one of our neighbours, Bob, had an almost identical power source and his compressor did work. The model has been "discontinued", however Stephen was able to find one and it works perfectly!
The compressor used for the stapling gun to attach the tarpaper to
the house.
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Stephen using the compressed air driven stapler to attach the
tarpaper.
Small circles from a piece of flooring were cut and the staples put
through these. These significantly reduce the possibility of the paper tearing.
The south side of the house is papered and the windows are installed.
Now, only three days later, the east wall is papered.
The left half of this was done from scaffolding, the right half by
the swing stage which can be seen near the top on the right.
For the past few weekends Marja has been hidden from view - often in the basement! She has been very busy though applying four coats of paint to the 60 lengths of cedar siding which will be used on the lower half of the house.
Marja painting the cedar siding.
After putting in the east wall windows, the north wall was tackled. This is one of the two really high walls. On September 28 the first half of the wall (near the west end) was completed with the exception of one window which could not be placed because one edge came free from the frame and needed replacement. The other half was completed on September 29, with the exception that the door was not put in. There were two reasons for this. The first - it was raining hard! The second - Saturday, September 30 had, for some time, been designated as "party day" to celebrate the summer work in building the house.
A view of the north wall taken during the rain! The swing stage can
be see at the centre of the photo.
The sheeting of the the west wall was finished on October 7, and the papering on October 9. The walls should now be watertight. When the rest of the windows are in, the house will be ready for lock-up.
Again it is raining as Stephen proceeds to complete the papering of
the west wall.
(Because of the roof overhang this section is completed sheltered
from the rain.)
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