The end (of the rafter project)

It seems like forever since I started putting up rafters, but by the end of last week the task was complete. I didn't work on them every single day, but it seemed like it.

By the time I got to the last of the three rooms which will have a drywall ceiling and not be visible I was using shorter pieces of 2 X 6's, screwed onto longer pieces, and butted together on top of beams. I did not have enough to complete the west-side bedroom so I used 2 X 8's for that room. We have plenty of 2 X 8's left over and I hope to use some of them for a feature on the outside east wall.

All of the rafters are now covered with billboard tarps so they are a bit harder to see in the pictures below.




Don't worry, the posts in the picture above are not bent though they appear to be. It's a distortion due to the shorter distance from the camera to those two posts than to the others. The whole tree posts in the top picture do have slight bends in them.