Buildus Interruptus
Well, it got cold. Real cold. Like -11 below. Real hard to work productively in that temp. You make mistakes when it’s cold and windy as well. Like using an angle grinder to saw off bolts with one hand while holding the home wrap madly flapping against the house. And having it get away on […]
Joists To The World…
Tired of the terrible puns yet? Couldn’t come up with anything better for Joist Day. Joist relocation program. You wouldn’t be able to tell by this image that we had just been through 3 hours of hell. I woke up an hour early at 5:30, and all I could hear was wind. Not a good […]
Beam me up Scotty.
Pre-beam. That big open space apparently can’t support a floor without some major structural support. Who’dve thought? Good thing I’m not an architect. Check out this bad boy. Amazingly, it took only 4 of us to drag this beam (from the furthest spot in the woodpile of course) and get it up into the metal […]
Mr. Gorbachev, Build This Wall
Fully Dampenated. Let the Undampening begin. Look, walls & windows. So now the framing starts. This is where things really show progress daily.