Prefabricated exterior panels installation - Day 5

Gerry Sawkins, certified Energy Advisor from Natural Resources Canada came to perform the blower door test today.  Brett Sichello & wife, Sarah, came down from Kelowna for the test.

Want to know more about the blower test?  Click here!

Very good results!

Hear, hear!

The view...for now.

Time to clad the exterior of the house, install the roof, and build internal service walls where all the plumbing and wiring will be located.

Prefabricated exterior panels installation - Day 4

Roof panels were installed today!

With the glulam in place, the 1st roof panel is carefully placed

Securing the roof panels

The house is up!

Prefabricated exterior panels installation - Day 3

While most of us had the day off on Canada Day, the Collective Carpentry team were hard at work securing all the panels for roof installation tomorrow.  We paid them a visit and toured the house.

The Collective Carpentry team: Rane, Andrew, Jan & Joey (from Trail!)

Steel beam over the main floor "kitchen"

View from 2nd floor "master bedroom"

Prefabricated exterior panels installation - Day 2

Andrew & Joey joined Rane & Jan for another day of hard work.  All the wall panels had to be installed in preparation for the roof panels arriving on Thursday.

2nd batch of panels ready to be lifted up & secured in place

Andrew securing one of the wall panels

By the end of Day 2

Prefabricated exterior panels installation - Day 1

Collective Carpentry has been working hard prefabricating the panels in their Invermere factory over the past few weeks.  Prior to that, lots of planning happened between Brett, Alison & Rane/Jan.

The panels finally arrived yesterday evening.  This morning, Rane and Jan (pro: Yan) were ready to install the first batch of panels.  What an exciting day!

They came prepared!

Before

The crane & the panels meet for the first time

The first piece

Jan & Rane securing the main floor panels

After

By lunch time