Ceiling Up! Rain out!

First thing I noticed when I arrived this weekend, after three days of wind and rain.... the tarp was completely OFF the tiny house!  The wind must have blown it off, so yet again my tiny house was wet, wet, wet!  Luckily, this weekend I came prepared to get the roof on and the whole place weather tight!

Here is Dad helping with the plywood.  Yup, that's plywood being placed over the rafters!  I wanted to look of boards but the air-tightness and shear resistance of plwood.  I'll add a post to show how I made it happen.

This is me up on the roof screwing in the plywood.  Dad and Mike did the heavy lifting to get the plywood up there.  :)

Then comes the tar paper.  SO happy that rain will no longer be getting into my tiny house!  Hopefully it will have a chance to fully dry out!

Tar paper finished!

Feeling quite cozy inside, with the ceiling done:

I'm so pleased with how the plywood turned out!  And the colour of the rafters contrasts nicely.

View towards the front door from the loft:

Took quite a while to finish the tyvek... one tall ladder made for a slow day of moving the ladder 4 feet, stapling the tyvek, then moving the ladder another 4 feet.  Even with me up on the roof, it still took ages.  I recommend two ladders, so one person can pass the tyvek to the next, who can work while the first person moves their ladder... leapfrog fashion!

Tyvek is on, and taped at the seams. At the top the tar paper folds over the tyvek, and is then coverd with BlueSkin to ensure a completely watertight connection between the roof and the walls.

Bring on the hurricanes!  :)