Project: Raising the Walls

Bob reviews the turret structure that’s been added to the project house. Then Bob and contractor Bob Ryley and the rest of the workmen raise a gable wall in accord with the crew’s modified approach to Western balloon framing.

Bob tours Lyndhurst mansion, a testament to high living during the Victoria era in New York’s Hudson River Valley. The 40-odd rooms include a Gothic dining room with a marble fireplace and a picture gallery with a Tiffany stained glass window.

Having reviewed their work on preparing the site, Bob and contractor Bob Ryley begin laying the first-floor decking by using glue and nails to attach the plywood decking to the special truss joists, which are made of OSB and laminated plywood.