8.17.2015

I started the morning by calling Georgia Pacific - the manufacturer of the plywood we bought that is sprouting orange mold.  Of course, after transferring me to someone in the claims department, she just kept repeating that mold is not a manufacturing defect and is therefore not a warranty issue.  She emailed me the warranty and what to do to get rid of mold.  It's ridiculous because this plywood is considered Exterior 1 rated - meaning that it is expected to be in the elements during building but not forever.  So it shouldn't be molding in weeks.

Jim called his Lowe's rep and pretty much insisted that she come out and look at it to see what can be done.  She will hopefully come tomorrow.

That distraction aside, it was another day of sheathing.  Working on the second row...

...screwing down the strapping...

Jim's access to the inside of the building is now curtailed...he had to scale along the wall to get into an opening.  Cue all the Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible references....

...sneaking into the wall opening.

Then we brought up the rest of the plywood that we will need for the top row.  Of course, this involved bringing over platforms so that Jim could use the scaffolding.

Throwing up the plywood onto the deck...

This piece of plywood had to be cut because the roofline will come down here and the rest will be the dormer wall of the apartment.

Unfortunately, this piece was crazy hard for Jim.  You can see he had to work off a ladder on top of the scaffolding to reach.  He just wasn't able to get much leverage and since these screws require so much force to get them in, it was tough.  He even put up a piece of wood on the top deck just to give him something to hold on to to try and gain leverage.  Then these top pieces require even more screws because of the blocking.  And it was almost 90 degrees out.  He was totally spent by the time this piece was screwed down.

So after that piece, he decided to rest and take a break - by rearranging scaffolding!  Granted, this would not be my form of resting but that's Jim for you!  We had to move the scaffolding tower from the corner over to the other side of the double tower so that he could reach the end of this wall section.

Time to make more ledger board flashing for the rest of this wall...

Attaching the flashing...

One job invariably leads to another...before Jim could put up the next piece of flashing, he had to cut off the end of the cross bracing.  So out came all the tools for this job and he got busy cutting it off...

At the end of the day, Jim spent some time caulking the edge where the sheathing meets the decking in hopes of avoiding water running down between them.

 

We thought our cold-formed steel delivery would be today, but Jim called and it is supposed to come tomorrow.  Hopefully our new screws will come in before they bring the steel so Jim can try them out.



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