Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Second floor

We have a second floor, and some roof trusses. The wife and I drove by yesterday after I got home from work. As we're approaching the house we could see a piece of the roof about to be lifted into place. We've been getting lucky at seeing some cool stuff so far.

We decided to sit and watch a little of the process. While we were sitting there we were remarking how tall the house looked. It looked as tall as the Ravenna being built across the street. This surprised us, because most of the Florence models we've seen don't look nearly as tall. The pitch of the roof looked much steeper than any Florence we have seen too. I even pulled out a picture of a Florence from a different development that has our same siding to compare. Maybe it's just an illusion, like so many things look strange during the building process. Maybe it is changed? During our pre-con the SR and PM told us there had been a few changes on the Florence. They weren't sure if ours would be getting these changes so they really didn't want to say what they were. I can kind of understand that, not wanting some change to come along and someone being ticked off that they didn't get it. Now we're thinking this might be one of the changes, we'll be asking our PM if he knows.

In the meantime, i'd like my fellow Florence bloggers to look at these pics and see what they think. Is it steeper? Is it an illusion? Am I nuts? Let me know what you think.

End panel being lifted.








9 comments:

  1. Wow Frank! It's going up quick. Looks really great!

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  2. We are a few weeks ahead of you in the construction of our Florence in PA. Your roof definitely looks much higher and steeper than ours.

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  3. Looking good! How exciting to see the trusses go up and be able to watch the progress!

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  4. Thanks guys, gonna ride over this evening and maybe post some more pics of the progress.

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  5. Frank it is beautiful! It does look really tall! It would be kind of exciting if you are one of the Florence owners that got the new changes. :) Nothing wrong with improvement in a design. ;)

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  6. Frank the roof looks that way because it has an 8 12 pitch in our development. The other Florence models you saw were more than likely 6 12 pitch. For every 12" of length of the trusses they raise 8".

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    1. Thanks Frank. I had no idea they changed that stuf from development to development.

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  7. In typical Ryan fashion, strikes me as bizarre that they can't confirm for you what exact roof pitch you're getting. Ha. As long as it's a happy "surprise" for you. They do seem to have a problem with the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing when it comes to some changes and options.

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  8. Frank, we just broke ground on Our Florence and now I have a great question to ask our PM about the roof pitch. Www.happily ever rushed.blogspot.com

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