Glue Lams

So above is the view from the front porch, looking into the house. Our entry way now has a huge hole in the ceiling where the stairs will end up being.

Climb up the ladder and you can see the upstairs in progress:



In the next day or so, they'll be laying plywood to be the new floors.

See that big beam in the background?

Here's a better shot of it:



There are two of them, running along the length of the house. They rest on the joists and are supported by all the supporting posts that they've been working on all these weeks, that go from the basement, through our main floor, up to the new upstairs.

They are the beginnings of the new walls of the new upstairs.

Here's the other one:



They're called "glue lams" -- spelling might be totally wrong, but they're basically ginormous beams made stronger because they're made up of smaller boards glued and laminated together.

Once the new floors go in, Mike will begin to tear the roof off.... yeah!