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UPDATE – they finally started tearing our roof off our house. Its still a little hard to believe that after seven months of planning, permit getting and reviewing with the city we finally broke ground and begun construction. My friend Nick, GC, founder and CEO of Exemplary Builders is running with the project. We started removing the roof from our house yesterday.

Planning Details

Since this is a Chicago A-frame building built in 1902 we needed to provide special provisions for fire safety. We will be using all steel materials including steel rafters, two by fours and joists. They actually ended up costing about the same and they are lighter than the wood materials. It works out well for us.

Here is a snapshot of the construction/remodeling of the house prior to the roof tear of demolition:

Day 0:

Day 1

Day 1.5

Of course murphys law didnt fail: As soon as you tear down the roof of yuor house it will rain or snow. Prior the roof tear down you will have weeks of consequitve perfet weather. After the new roof is up you will have weeks of perfect weather.

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