I could cry, but what good sill that do.  For those not on the right coast, we’re in a period of about 10 days of rainy stuff.  So the blower door test has been pushed out at least a week. You can see the sheathing is done.  🙂 but no taping.  And the Amish guys working on the garage, drive out from East Earl Lancaster county to get a half a days work done before getting drenched.  So, we can’t dance, to wet to plow, so we might as well sing Christmas Carols.

As it turned out the roof ZIP sheathing was backordered and didn’t show up till late Wednesday.  Thursday was nothing but rain so no work got done.  Friday was a beautiful day and the sheather’s were on side before 8:00.  I was expecting it be a one day job.  I had errands to run and to head back to New London to finish packing  so I left around 10:00.  I arrived this afternoon (Sunday) around 4:00 expecting the house to be fully sheathed.  But it wasn’t, I’m guessing they ran out of roof sheathing.  Here are some photos.    I have rescheduled the first blower door test out a week to 12/29. Note we are sheathing everything but the front door for the first blower door test.   The garage material showed up on Friday, and they plan to get started Monday.  The windows were delivered Wednesday.

The sheathing behind the porch roof needed to be installed before these roofs could be framed. And before the sheathing gapes needed to be caulked with the never harding “Acoustical Caulk”. Supper sticky and black. Then “blocking” needed to be added between the studs to allow the sheathing to be nailed property on 3-6″ centers  The sheathing is ZIP R-6, it puts an R-6.6 insulation on the outside of the framing and helping to minimize the thermal bridging. Note how the sheathing goes behind the roof over hangs to create an envelop of insulation around the exterior of the house.

Tomorrow the final delivery of the sheathing will arrive and the full sheathing will happen at full bore.