Steel Girders Came Today!

We were getting a little frustrated because the steel structure was supposed to go in last week, but the fabricator was slow on the delivery.  They finally came today, and now the skeleton is going in.

It is a little unusual to use structural steel on a small house like ours.  It's more expensive then reinforced concrete, but using concrete would have required us to place large supporting pillars to support the weight of the upper floors.  Space is a real issue for us, so we chose to use steel in spite of the extra expense (it didn't really work out to be that much more anyway).

It wasn't really possible to go in the house with all this work going on, so I will go to the house tomorrow to get some more pictures.