Overall: Despite rain from Sunday night until Wednesday morning, we reached a couple significant milestones this week. Concrete slab for the house was completed and we have walls standing up.
Monday: Rain overnight has made a muddy mess of the site. Called Bender lumber and they delivered the lumber package for the interior and exterior walls of both buildings. We will start on shop walls when it stops raining
Tuesday: History: we closed on the purchase of this real estate, on this date in 2014. 8 years later – more rain overnight and rain all morning and into the afternoon.
Wednesday: We commenced exterior wall framing… until rain forced us to stop.
Thursday: Completed framing the north wall, and started framing the south wall. Stood up sections of the south wall.
Friday: Stood up the north wall and the last section of the south wall. Rented a post hole auger to drill 10 piers to be filled w/concrete to serve as the foundation for the deck posts on the west side of the house
Saturday: Hooray ! The concrete slab is placed and finished for the house. The concrete crew had the slab completely finished and sealed by noon. Used the long reach of the concrete pumping truck to fill the holes we dug on Friday. A total of 67 cubic yards of concrete were needed for the shop and house slabs. Spent part of the afternoon, moving concrete blocks and cleaning up construction debris around the site.
Sunday: No work at the site today. Catching up on construction paperwork, planning next week’s priorities, and a list of people to call. Also moved the first load of household goods to dad’s house for storage, as we prepare to vacate the 529 N Plymouth Rd at the end of the month.
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