We had some real light snow flurries this morning - the kind you look at and just think how pretty they are because you know they aren't going to amount to anything. Well. Jim got to the property and couldn't make it even halfway up the driveway! He tried multiple times - if he went fast enough to try and make it up, he would lose control. So he ended up parking the car at the bottom - but even when he stepped out of the car, he instantly fell. It was just that slick. He had to walk in the piles of snow up the driveway.
So after that wonderful start to the day, Jim had to rearrange his plans a bit. He had planned to go to the Drywall Center at lunchtime but canceled that idea - certainly didn't want to have to carry buckets of drywall plaster up the hill while trying to stay on your feet!
He worked in the woodshop basement this morning - he finished all the drywall in the area surrounding the sink.
The next big project for the day was to finish up a loose end and permanently fasten the stair stringers to the landing. Jim has had clamps temporarily holding the stringers in place until this job could be done. This was a good time to do this project because we will be putting drywall next to the stairs soon. First step today was to make a working plank down below for Jim to stand on.
Then he had to take off the bottom step and clean all the corrosion off the steel edge angle already in place for the concrete landing.
The idea is to weld a piece of angle to the edge angle. Here he's getting ready to cut the new piece to size...
Once it was cut to size, he drilled holes in for button welds...
Everything is ready to go...
You can see how perfectly the stair stringer fits against the angle...
Out comes the welder...
Jim had to be very careful when welding because of the extreme temperatures - concentrated hot spots could cause the concrete to expand and break. Because of that, he set the welder to a lower heat setting when placing the button welds as well as a few "stitches" along the bottom to hold it in place. Then he put the first step back on - that project is now done!
He then worked up in the apartment - he finished the rest of the joints in the living room and then moved into the second bedroom to continue putting the second coat over the screws and the last coat on the taped joints.
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