The Beam

     I order to keep us on some kind of schedule and be able to get back to renovating this weekend I was going to have to find my contractors quickly. Thankfully our real estate agent knew a good engineering firm and he was able to come out to look at the roof on Wednesday. The contractor was a recommend from another contractor that I was using on our town house uptown and he could make Wednesday as well. Well win win for me. Lets get this thing moving.

     After the engineer and the contractor met at the house it was decided that a 22ft long 18" high 4" thick LVL (laminated Vinyl Lumber) beam was needed to support the roof load. This beam would weigh every bit of 600lbs. Good thing I got the contractor. I didn't really think my back would have been up to this task.

    The Beam was delivered on Thursday 

Work began on Friday. Hopefully this will take just the one day and will not interfere with our progress this weekend.

This is one heavy beam!!!!

Beam Transport

Getting the beam in the Attic

All done ;)

They were able to get the beam in place and secured in one day. That means all lights are green for more Renovation on the weekend!!!