Construction Update #36

Our materials for laying out the top floor were supposed to arrive last week. With that delayed until next week, we focused on the stairs. And it took a lot of focus!

The crew from last Fall measured cut and formed accordingly. Unfortunately, one oops and lots of stuff gets out of whack. The new crew made a template out of plywood and put it in place. This revealed things needing to be changed. The standby time for the crane is $250/hr and one of the fixes took almost two days. Thank goodness for templates!

Even so, a slight twitch of a finger from the crane operator could have turned the 7000 pound stair sets into an instant battering ram poised to tear down a wall for rupture a floor. Or worse, to pin a worker. A very, very stressful day. But ultimately a success!

Now that we have the stairs going up, we will return to building the top floor.

Steve