Day 14 House Assembly

Tuesday, 1/16/18

Today will be busy. Roofers arrive at 7:30 (a bunch of them were there at 7am). The wood stove flue installer from Bay Stoves will arrive at 8am. The Bensonwood team will be replacing the compromised electrical wire that we discovered last night (see prior post). And the Lundberg team will be installing doors.
(Unfortunately, my GoPro camera became unplugged from the big battery pack that supplies power all day. So I have a few hours of time lapse and didn't get all of the roofing or of the master bedroom door being set. I was a bit distracted this morning, with all the planned activity, and somehow missed that it had become unplugged or that I hadn't fully connected it when I installed it in the container at the end of my extension pole.)

The roofers impressed everyone. They had a 46 square roof finished in less than a day. There must have been three or four teams working on the roof and another one or two fellows working around the edges to set the drip edge. It was interesting to see them work in pairs. One person stood up roof and slid shingles down to the person nailing them. Pneumatic nail guns allowed them to nail a shingle in the time it would take to do one nail using hand nails.
Mid-way in the Roofing Job
Taping and foaming of all possible sources of air leaks continued. I worked with the Lundberg team of Robert and Kyle to set the dining room sliding door and the master bedroom sliding door (both are 12ft doors - lots of water view). We are now two doors from being fully enclosed. Our entry door is not here yet, so we planned to use a 6ft door from the old house as the construction entrance door. We would rather not have a nice, new door scratched by contractors going in and out all the time. Since the old door is a french door, we can open both sides to get a full 6ft wide entrance.

Tomorrow won't be as busy. We'll be setting the last two doors and finishing the taping and foaming. We would like to setup to do a blower door test to check for air leaks.

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