Timber Frame Roof on Kusa Addition

The Timber Frame Roof on our Kusa Addition is underway. The ridge beam and rafters were sawn from pine logs at a local Amish saw mill.

The 4"x7" rafters are notched to fit the 4"x11" ridge beam.

Roof Replacement on Lodge Lane

Shawnee Lane New Build

It rained today so while I had some free time I took the opportunity to take some pictures of a home we built a few years ago on Shawnee Lane in Hide-A-Way Hills.

The owners on this project had a cabin on Lake Eagle Claw that they wanted to tear down and build a new home closer to the water.

With the new house located closer to the water, we had to design a switch back driveway because of the steep angle of the lot.

Left Side Front

The house is sided with T-111 siding and roofed with 30 year dimensional shingles.

We used oak spindles, handrails, and trim to complete the twin stairways that lead to lofts on either end of the house.

Twin Stairs

Down From Big Loft

Back Doors

Back Deck

Country Porch

As part of our remodeling project on Kusa Lane, the customers wanted a porch roof added to their garage to cover an existing deck. This porch roof is built using pressure treated 4x4 posts, 2 pressure treated 2x8 beams, 2x6 rafters , and painted steel roofing.

Completed Porch at Clear Creek

We have completed the porch at Clear Creek Cottage. The 2"x8" rafters are rough sawn pine from an Amish sawmill. The roof is exposed on the underside and was constructed from T-111 plywood over-laid with oriented strand board to prevent the roofing nails from coming through.

Clear Creek Progress

The dry wall has been completed at our remodel at Clear Creek Cottage. The deck is also finished with the post and beam porch and the roof is underway.

Clear Creek Cottage Remodel

We've began to work on a new Remodel project at Clear Creek Cottage, a cabin in the Hocking Hills area.
The project entails building a new front deck with a post and beam roof, shingling the porch and house, and completing drywall repairs throughout the house.

Completed Porch

The porch on Kusa is nearly complete. We installed the tongue and groove pine ceiling, covered it with plywood , and laid the fiberglass shingles.

Screen Porch

Recently, I've received increased interest in building porches similar to the one I built at our Nelsonville new build. To offer my potential customers more ideas, here a few photos of the first post and beam porch I built. The screened porch measures 12'x16' contains Hemlock timbers and is roofed with mill finished galvanised steel roofing.

Sky Lights

This week's project is a roof replacement on Cherokee Lane in Hide-A-Way Hills. The roof had developed some leaks over the Winter mainly in the area of some of the six Sky Lights. When we removed the shingles we found that two of the Sky Lights had been installed incorrectly and that none of them had been installed to our standards.

Water leaks are a common problem with Sky Lights, but with the proper precautions the Sky Lights I install, or the roofs I install around them virtually never leak.

My technique is to apply a self-adhering modified-bitumen underlayment to seal the Sky Light curb to the roof deck creating a watertight barrier. When the shingles and flashing are installed the underlayment is designed to seal around nails that are driven through it to provide continuous protection year after year.

Shelter House

Over the Weekend I headed up a volunteer project here at home in Hide-A-Way Hills. The Golf Committee aproached me with the idea of building a Shelter House at the Golf Course. As an avid golfer and customer of the Club House I thought it was a great idea. With the help of several volunteers we were able to erect the 24'x32' Shelter House on Saturday and Sunday, and roof it on Monday.

Back Porch Roof

We installed the Roof on the Back Porch of our Nelsonville new build. We wanted to use the same tongue and groove pine that we had used throughout the project. Because the pine would be both the ceiling and roof, we installed it from above. Before the metal roofing could be applied, the pine had to be covered with a layer of plywood. With this process, we were assured the screws would not show through the ceiling.

Cricket

When building a chimney on a house, a major consideration is in diverting the water running down the roof from the back of the chimney. On a house where the chimney is located on the side or near the top of the roof, flashing is all that is required. However, to divert the water on a house where the chimney is near the bottom of the roof, we build a small roof called a cricket. The photos show how the water will be shunted off to one side and away.

A little roof repairing was the order of business today. A commercial roof on a garage in Columbus had been damaged by some of the recent storms. We used a Polymer Modified Bitumen, commonly called torch-down rolled roofing, to patch the problem areas on the roof. While I would never recommend installing a new roof without removing the old roofing material, torching down a patch will solve the problem until later on in the season when the customer can have the entire roof replaced.

A-Frame

In the summer of 2005, we took on a remodel addition project on H-A-H Lane in Hide-A-Way Hills.The owners had bought an a-frame cabin that had been unoccupied for several years. As with a lot of projects of this type, the scope of the job expanded as it went on. What started out relatively small, snowballed into a major reconstruction as we found more things needed replacing. It might almost have been less expensive to tear it down and build a new house, but we wouldn't have ended up with a home with anywhere near the character of this one. By project completion we had accomplished the following:
-Built a dormer,installed skylights, and re roofed the house.
-Built a 16'x16' addition on a basement.
-Put in all new plumbing. electrical, and a furnace.
-Installed new windows and doors.
-Created a brand new kitchen and bath.
-Covered the ceilings with tongue and groove pine and the floors with oak hardwood.
-Built over 400 sq. ft of new decks.

Steel Roof

This is the first residential steel roof that we have installed at SMC. It was very tricky because of the steep pitch. We love a challenge, and this roof gave us a good one.

While steel roofs are about twice the cost of an average asphalt, or fiberglass shingle roof, the durability and long life make them a good alternative. The looks of a steel roof can't be beat either.

Porch Completed

The photo above shows a view of the completed porch before the metal roof was installed.