Bonus Round
As luck would have it, I’ve managed to get the flu… great.
I guess I picked it up when I was going back and forth to the hospital and the rehab center while I was dealing with my brother.
I’ve been taking aspirin, juices, green tea w/honey and drinking plenty of fluids. I’m doing better, but I’m definitely not going to be doing any major construction for a couple of days… BONUS!
Well, the siding crew did indeed finish the exterior as far as they could yesterday…
As you can see, the Tyvek area is awaiting the front porch/carport to be completed.
The front needs to be somewhat excavated to grade so that Ken (the concrete contractor) can come back and pour the parking pad and a 5 ft wide walkway to the entrance door.
After that, I can put up the vertical posts for the covering. I’ll try to get the 2×8 banding up over the next week. That way, as soon as we can add weight to the parking pad, the roof can go right up. The parking pad will be 16×30.
The lounge (East) side and the North side landscaping needs to get started on cleaning up and leveling as well.
Thomas is supposed to be coming this afternoon to start excavation and leveling. I’m not sure how much he’ll get done, but I hope it’s enough to allow the concrete contractor to come in with little issue of getting grade for the parking pad.
One thing I’m happy that A.T. did, was to add the “Z” channel below the double layer of OSB.
Even though it’s not a tremendous depth, it might be enough to allow me to add some kind of veneered rock… we’ll see.
One thing that we did do yesterday was to try to figure out how complex the framing is going to be. That way it helps him to give me a better pricing figure for what he and his crew have got to handle.
One of the things we did figure out is that for a couple of the walls, that it will actually be better to build the walls square and flat. Then go back and add the higher angled portions of the walls in, like a knee wall or stiffener wall.
The plan is for me to go ahead and put as much stuff together as I can. Then we will hopefully work jointly to finish the framing.
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