Our land is on the North San Juan Ridge just north of Malakoff Diggins. It sounds like the people you know are on the ridge over, the one that hwy 20 runs up?
email me at jedon@darklingdesign.com and I'll share my budget with you.
Trusses: I was going to go with a traditionally framed roof instead of a SIP roof for cost reasons but after researching it the money saved was modest at best so I switched to 10" SIP with engineered trusses. The quote for the engineered trusses came in a lot higher than I expected so I then switched to post/beam style but the ones the engineer came up with looked too modern to me and the engineer showed me trusses made from PSL ( parallel strand lumber ) that he had just made for his house and I really liked them so switched to that. Now there are 4 large trusses, 3 across the main part of the house and one across the office. The large ones have a 32' span at 10/12 pitch, I'll post some pics of the AutoCAD layout. The trusses and the beams they sit on are all fully inside the house walls and exposed.
