Construction update #44

Maybe would have been cheaper to just pour molten steel for the main floor! The engineer keeps saying it is the hardest working floor in the house. Only in this house would the top floor work harder then the lower floor?!

But the light at the end of the tunnel might not be an oncoming train. My main guy set a date certain for pouring the beam channels. Next Thursday. Bank on it. Oh yeah, I already am. The slab itself would get poured a week later.

Trish from the plumbing supplier stopped by to finalize some things. Seems what I picked out for the master shower accounted for 25 gal/min. Not only would the hot water heater not keep up, but the 2’ drain would overflow. Our plumber, Ben, affectionately called it the car wash.

We are trying out a company that does water jet cutting of granite. They use a computer on-site to program a template that is EXACT, then bring back a finished product. The jets use water at 65,000 Psi, essentially doing the work of nature but in a few seconds what takes nature a millennium to do.

Working with mortar takes hands tougher then mine. But the results behind the fireplace look good to me.

Steve