Construction update #34

Hard to call it a ‘construction’ update, but an update nonetheless.

It was a big snow year to be sure. Its’ settled depth inside the second level of the house is up to the window sills. It took hours of work just to carve a channel to the house!

The middle floor is about 2,000 square feet. Calculating the cubic yards of snow gives me a brain freeze. No way to shovel it out. The doorways were supposed to be for 36” doors. But the door bucks took up too much room in the tight angles so I agreed to change the door sizes to 32”. Did not seem like a big deal back then since doors had not been ordered yet. And I wasn’t thinking then about having to get the 35” wide dingo inside to dig snow!

Tried to use a snow thrower. But the snow depth, compaction and icy base made that pointless. So had to build a snow ramp and drive the Dingo through the window opening. Then we had to build a snow slide to get the snow clear to the river. But at least it is getting done.

Found some terrific bronze fish art embedded in a concrete floor at the SeaTac airport of all places. Contacted the foundry and they are making some salmon for our main floor. Very exciting.

Plan is to restart construction as of March 10. A new crew will replace the one that walked off the job last November. Fingers are crossed.

Steve