With the prices of new houses, we opted to build 2 more rooms. With a break in the rains today, framing was partly done in just a day. Wish this was a greenhouse, but this is on the north side of the house. This 2-room additions is $60K, greenhouse would really be cheaper.

more lumber for framing. notice the "Nipa hut" in the background, and there are bananas in front of the Nipa hut. Those bananas are pushing out leaves. The trunk survive the winter and will bear fruit hopefully this year. Of course my completed flagstone project from last year, and still have several potted plants placed temporarily on the vegetable garden plot while the room addition project is underway.

Thanks for sharing that. If it makes you feel better, I'll show you a REAL mess when I built my sunroom from 1 1/2 yrs ago.

That's back of my house which faces east. Here's a pic of the inside w/ fr doors replacing that back window

Here's 2 walls up. On the left, wall is 9 ft high with 11 ft of window going across (faces south). North wall is 6 ft.

This is 18' wide here (16X18' rm). The door's been replaced w/ a glass door. There's 2 skylites on left (south) roof (wish there was 3). It's well insulated (you can see the "pink stuff") and it's all sided & DONE now outside, and I built a nice deck last yr too. Inside ceiling is 13ft high.

Hope you post more pics as it progresses! Patty

Patty, nice sunroom you've got. The crawl space under your sunroom is ideal place to over winter bananas so that they will fruit for you. People as far North as Canada can successfully fruit bananas by digging them out at first signs of frost and store them bare rooted in the crawl space and then replant them in spring.

Both are looking good .. Joe How is your project comming ?
i have a roof and sidding to put on this yr and when i do the roof im putting in 4 sun lights ..

then the sidding this house was bought so i could fix it up and love it my way built in 1970 and no one had done anything to it until i bought it ..

i could sell it and make 230,000.00 but im gonna wait until i get it finished for the better deal of 450,000.00 I got lucky on this house i out bid 17 people.. was a repo that was in dire need ive already done the inside new sheet rock new floor bathroom and stuff but once the roof and sidding are up i think im gonna put in the hard wood ( fake stuff) florring since the house is sitting on a huge concrete Slab and man no carpet or matt can stop the pain in my feet when walking on it and i might even make it heated ..Tammy

I really miss building houses ..

Thanks Joe. You mean bananas nead to over winter as in figs going dormant?
I believe anything in the crawlspace would freeze. The frost line here is 4 ft. I dug 4 ft deep holes every 8 ft -- used 18 80lb. bags of cement to fill them LOL.
If you lookat 1st pic, on far left is a trap door (lumber on it) going to basement with porch behind it. That's where I put my figs for winter--under that porch. Below that header nailed to house is a full basement w/ 7 1/2 ft celing & 10 " thick brick walls --fricken fall-out-shelter LOL.
On second thought, maybe if I wrap the banana heavily in old blankets & insulation , I could keep them under sunroom! Good idea!
Patty

Next year I'm just going to have to get out to California (my home state by the way) and see Joe's back yard, and also see Benny. - Millet

We'll be waiting for you. As usual, could not take pics again, raining heavily, through night and day.

Millet:
It will be our pleasure.
Joe: Save us some of your home made wine and I'll save some Corona for Laaz. There's a good chance he might come over too.
Benny

Here's what they did today:

While I was making pictorial demo for my style of bark grafting, I took this pic from a ladder behind my pear tree combo, which by the way is now an 20-in-1 combo asian/european/hybrid pear tree:

Roof framing done today:

Another view of the roof framing:

View from the outside. Note of the plastic sheet on top of the roof to protect against the rain.

Another view from the outside. We have had too much rain, but my drainage, though unseen are perfectly working.