Picking Up Where We Left Off...

With some help from family (thanks, Dad!), we made more progress with the exterior wall. In the last post, you could see the rigid foam insulation on the exterior:

We put up the JumboTex house wrap over the foam. The white chalk lines show where there are studs underneath.

 Next, plywood blocks were screwed into the studs at 16" intervals.

And smaller blocks were then nailed to these. Longer vertical boards were fastened every 48", which is where the seams of the fiber cement panels will go. These boards will create and air gap between the foam and the fiber cement panels and will also give us something to screw the panels into.

 A narrow panel -- the first one -- went into place next to the doorway.

 And was painted with primer.