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Floor framing

Thursday there was some progress framing and insulating the new crawl space floor. This was held up a little because the HVAC guys said they want to plumb for the relocated radiator location and that would be easier to do before the insulation gets attached to the bottom of the floor joists. 

In other news, we moved the camera outside to the cherry tree and started filming from there. You can see Craig burying the extension cord that powers the camera in the background of the movie.

We need to make some exposure adjustments and see if we can add a wide angle lens adaptor to the setup, but the footage wasn’t too bad for a first try.

We start the day filming from indoors, and then move to the tree
  • how to mount a camera on a tree
  • floor joists
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First Try at the sillplate, plus another big hole

Tuesday,  materials started showing up for framing up the new exterior walls.  They busted a big (person sized) hole through the old foundation in order to give access to the new foundation…. Plus they started on capping the new foundation blocks.

  • The last of the overhang in the dumpster
  • new materials
  • The access whole to the old basement
Build a level sill plate
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End of the day Monday

After the pizza was eaten and more work done, the dumpster is full and here’s where we stand:

  • foundation
  • E-side without overhangs
  • no more overhangs
  • south west view no overhangs
  • hunk of overhang
  • first full dumpster(s)
  • the other “dumpster”
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Pizza Monday

We made pizza on the grill for the guys today. Yum.  …. and, while they guys weren’t eating pizza, the foundation wall  was built and the roof overhangs on the east side were cut off. Yay.

  • Pizza day Craig & the guys
  • Pizza Day masons
  • Pizza break, mason
First half of the foundation wall
Second half of the foundation wall