He started working on the door frame pieces. Nudura sells a plastic form that you can use to later attach doorframes to, but Jim didn't like it. He bought wood and then ordered special hot-dipped galvanized lag bolts (if you look closely at the big pieces of wood sticking up you can see them sticking out!). When concrete is poured inside, these lag bolts will enable the wood to bond to the concrete and the wood will be connected permanently. Then later, Jim will be able to make door frames and attach to this wood piece.
Then it was back to work on shoring up the forms in anticipation of concrete. His goal was to get all of the outside done today.
Around lunchtime, Jim's Nudura rep came with the pieces that he ordered wrong to exchange with the ones that we couldn't use. Jim has been waiting for these speciality pieces so he can build the area between the garage door and the man door. The rep also brought us another roll of waterproofing as well as handrails that will attach to the alignment system for safety when they are up there working and doing the concrete.
The rep was amazed at the quality of Jim's work - he said he had never seen such precise work on a building before - and this is his job! He took pictures of all kinds of things to show other people how Jim was doing things. Since this is Jim's first time using the ICFs, those comments from a professional in the business made him feel good and more confident.
As always, there is lots more to meet the eye - in order to make everything work, some times Jim had to use regular ICFs instead of the brick ledges. For example, they don't make a taper top corner piece - you have to make it yourself. So Jim had to carefully cut out keys and then cut tapered pieces of foam out so that the concrete will be able to go into those areas and make a strong ledge for the brick.
Speaking of the brick, we scanned a check to them this morning so our brick is on order and will be on its way! Whew....glad we don't have to think about that anymore!
At the end of the day, Jim had met his goal - he got the outside done with all the bracing. So he decided it was a good time to redo the way the windows are stored. He put two pallets on the ground, put a tarp over the top of them, and then moved the windows to sit on the tarp.
Then he brought up all the edges of the tarp and fastened it to the windows. That way, it will keep any ground moisture from seeping through.
Then, we covered everything back up with the giant tarp and fastened it. Now they should be really safe until we can move them inside.
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