Another 12h days, too tired for comments, just a bunch of pics.
Protected: House – All 4 walls are up!
House – Not a great day
The Sun was beating on me all day and a fire broke out pretty close to our land. I had trouble finishing the OSB and barely got started on a wall. Tarping everything up for the night took for ever. Not a productive day.
Protected: House – Subfloor OSBing
House – Subfloor Framing
Blocking is very time consuming; so is having to deal with uneven boards. Thanks to my boss Mark for taking his own time off to work 11 hours straight thus saving me time and mistakes made.
House – Support Built-Up Beam Anchoring
Once again I spent hours measuring & leveling; the laser level has proven itself to be invaluable.
To lift the beams up I used a technique I don’t know the name of but that I discovered watching this: link. This is no Stonehege but 3 2x8x16 with plywood sandwiched between is more than I can lift, this technique worked really well.
Leveling, mesuring, hammering for 9 hours. The 2 heaviest parts of the house, piers & beams are up a month ahead of schedule.
Protected: House – Support Built-Up Beam Assembly
Protected: House – Pier Install Day
House – First Load, Piers & Wood for the Main Beams
3 tons of precast 5′ piers
Remote controlled crane
Hats off to Shane for trying to get closer to the site
House – Establishing the Site and Leveling for Piers
Level, like an Egyptian. This method is both cheap and very accurate. Note the use of windshield wiper fluid for color & anti-freeze.
Zeno’s paradox?
Unfortunately I couldn’t come up with a way of doing right angles I trusted, so I ended up getting a laser level; which is a pretty awesome toy and confirmed how accurate liquid leveling was on top of giving me a perfect 90°.
A perfect right angle if ever I’ve seen one.
End of the day, with every mason strings finely adjusted to a perfect & level square. It doesn’t look like much but it took 7 hours to get there.
Unlike the pricy electric laser level, the liquid one can sleep outside.
