7.6.2015

Today Jim worked on window frames.  As I said, unfortunately this isn't as easy as it would be with wood.  If you look closely at this picture, you can see that Jim made a track at the bottom of the header with a piece that goes across the studs to provide structural support.  Then he had to install a track and a stud back to back to form a box structure.

We figured out where we wanted the window to go - we definitely wanted to be able to look out onto our gorgeous woods!  Then Jim had to come up with a plan for the bottom support for the window...

 

...as well as the top support.

 



 

Fastening everything together.  I told Jim that it looks like a piece of art - Jim said it's constructed almost like a piece of furniture!  The first one is always the hardest - this is all new territory and everything has to be figured out before it can be built.

 



 

We also worked in the ground floor taking down more shoring.  This is the last stringer to come down for this tower.

 



Three towers are completely down!  Two others are almost ready to come down and we started on the last one.  It's amazing how big the space looks with shoring out of the way!

 

Jim figured out what cold-formed steel he needed to do the rest of the windows now that he has a plan.  We also needed more studs because we need to finish our last adjustments because of the concrete - there are a few that Jim decided would be best fixed by putting in new studs cut to the right size.  So that order is placed and should be in tomorrow or Wednesday.

 

We also got a call that our garage doors are in and will be delivered Thursday!  There's so much going on right now - Jim keeps saying he could go in so many different directions right now.  It's all exciting!

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