5.30.2015

Jim and I love the weather here - we see the beauty in the cold and snow, the foggy mornings, even the rainy days.  Typically it doesn't matter too much - until you want to pour concrete.  On Thursday when we postponed the concrete pour, the forecast for Monday was for cooler with 0% chance of rain.  This morning the weather showed 100% chance of rain for Monday!  We were crushed.  We are so ready for this pour and the forecast isn't cooperating.  The worst part is that we are at the mercy of the concrete contractor and his schedule.

But you have to press on.  Jim had put some spray foam in all the corners of the deck last night - this morning he cut all the expanded parts out.  Little more finishing touches all the time.

One of our goals soon is to move the water line back - we were going to put it up where you see the line now but wanted to move it back to be able to bury it a little deeper to prevent any freezing issues.  So Jim marked off the digging area.

After lunch, we decided to move our cold-formed steel studs up to the top near the deck.  Hopefully if we can ever get concrete poured, this will be our next step!  We had some extra pallets from the scaffolding delivery, so Jim divided up the steel into 3 different sections - this wider steel will actually be floor joists for the stairwell landing.

These are the regular wall studs...

So once we got them loaded up on the pallets, we moved the pallets up top.  Then when we're ready for them, Jim can just use the Bobcat forks and lift the whole thing up onto the deck ready for building!

The last section is the heaviest gauge steel - Jim is screwing two pieces together to make a double wall studs - these will go under the trusses, because they will have to carry the most weight.

 

As Jim put them together, we moved them to another pallet on the Bobcat forks.  We cut the afternoon short though because it started raining - so we decided to go to church this evening.

 

We did get some good news - Jim texted the concrete contract about the weather and he replied back that he had already canceled for Monday.  He said the weather forecast looks good mid-week.  That made us feel good - he's on top of things and taking care of them.  Plus we won't have to wait too long to get back on his schedule.  Hope for clear skies!!

 

High 85/Low 64 - few showers around