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First wall segment

Today begins with our completed subfloor. Eliot cleaned it off.


We measured and squared a datum for the inside of the exterior wall framing. Then we snapped chalk lines and locked it in place with clear paint.


Lunch break at our picnic spot.


During lunch, we heard from Jeremy, who is flying home from the east coast in his Cardinal. We did the Siobhan Hi maneuver. You can't see the whole shape here because the photographer isn't lying down.


There he is, circling above!


And here's the aerial photo he sent down to us a minute later.


Back to work! Christina finished installing the trim in the shedlet. All that's left are the light fixtures. Woo! Jon ordered a mini-fridge on the drive home.


Eliot took a little break to help Siggy construct an airplane out of junk wood.


The thing actually flew!


Mostly.


Back up the hill, Christina shows off the completed trim. Yay! She and the kids headed home to avoid a late evening.

Jon and Eliot worked on the first segment of wall. It involved some pretty beefy 6x6 posts, so big that they can't be cut in a single pass with our measly 12" chop saw. Eliot got his second cut lined up so well on this post that you can't see the seam. Nice.


Nailing the wall section together.


Until Jon realized that the header won't go into its brackets with the top plate on. So, un-nailing the wall.


And now the header is installed correctly, and the wall is nailed back together.


That's it for today! This was the first time in a while that we quit soon enough to get the tools put away in daylight. Off for some well-deserved pizza.

Comments

  1. JJuly 28, 2019 at 10:04 PM

    Well, it's definitely not a kit, is it? Good going, you guys. Lots of progress. Everyone needs to sign the first wall up.

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