Well, it has been a long time and a lot of hard work, but the Whimsey Hall Station on the Woodpecker Gulch Railway (aka our storage building) is pretty much finished. It took us just about a year - we finished it up and got it inspected a week before the one year building permit ran out!
Building Whimsey Hall Station
Putting up the poles last summer
The first row of poles
Tom works on putting up band beams to support the second floor deck
Using Mark’s tractor to pass up the floor plywood
Floor in place
Then the band beams to hold the roof
Starting on the siding, which was cut from trees on the site
JC paints one of the windows from Architectural Elements, the Historic Ithaca salvage store
Here come the trusses!
Tom tips up another truss
It’s starting to look like a building...
Nailing on the purlins for the overhang
We’re ready for the roof
Oops! We found the old septic tank!
Using the big fork lift to put roof panels up
Have to quit for the winter, but it looks pretty good
The back side view at the end of 2007
Putting up the upstairs siding
I’ve got to do something about this doorway!
Building the hip roof for the upstairs door
Hey, that came out pretty good!
JC paints the garage door
While Tom strips and paints the people door
Looking pretty good!
Putting in the gravel floor
I think we can call it done for now. We’ll build the ramp to the upstairs door later
But we can take down the Cover-it now!