Setting the walls (or Flying the walls.)

Today we accomplished setting half the walls, and 2 interior walls. The thought was if we completed the entire exterior it would be harder to "airlift" the interiors, according to the head forman of job. The joly old soul in the chair.

The temperture continues to be in high 90's with the humidity. Tomorrow 100 and Thursday 101 so......water....break....work....water.....!!!!!!
What a wonderful thing to have Rye here operating the "big tonka toys." He has done a great job and grampa Andrews would be very proud of him. Enjoy the pictures and the cooler temps of Vermont and New York. Its bed time here......

Getting the walls organized

Monday was a day of finishing the decking and getting ready for today........The next phase of setting the walls.

Floor joints and decking

After a nerve racking day Wednesday and 102 tempertures and near 100% humidity we were able to unload the house from the truck......it was absolute HELL!!!!!! Thanks to some guys I had hired (which turned out to be angels) purely by luck, placing an ad on local internet site for country radio station. Thanks again Jimmy, Charlene, Tony, Carl, and Earl...Rye the bobcat operator and my loving son, Alf and I. Heat sick and nervous tension we finished after 9 hours. Truely the worst day....we took Thursday off, another day of sizzling heat of over 100 and heat index at 106.

As the pictures show we have the garage area joints and decking on. Some minor set-back with the stair area joints we are on track again. This week tempertures again are predicted for high 90 into the 100's. Hotest August since 1999, figures doesn't it!!!!

3 days-3 walls from floor to top of walls

As we are all familair with the 1960's show "Green Acres", the carpenters names were Ralph the female and Alf the male...well Alf and I have completed phase one of the house. Rising daily for the last 3 days at 5am and working till 1230 we did it and beat the heat except for last 2 and 1/2 hours. Whew!!!! Green Mountain coffee to jump start us and Gaterade to keep us revived.

We also purchased a 36 inch fan, and refer to it as our Kentucky primitive air conditioning. Thank you "John Deere."

Also a special thank you to Ken Allen a very close family friend who gave Alf and I a wonderful

power miter saw. What a god-sent!!!!! I will have a gorgeous tan for the wedding, and Alf will have a wonderful sun-burn. Damn that red hair!!!!

floor is poured

Today at 7am the floor pour comenced as promised! The boys at bluegrass did a fine job Thank You Guys!!!!The floor is now slick finished and sealed. The outside walls have been coated with waterproofing and we are ready to start framing the front wall and the 2 load bearers in the basement whew!!!!! Our only hiccup in all of this was 2 inches of rain that fell friday night into sat morning but it did nothing to the schedule

P&J

Monday"s progress

Friday we had the walls poured all weekend we worked getting drainage and basement plumbing done. Today Bluegrass and associates(our concrete contractor) came back and stripped the forms off the inside of the foundation and prepared the floor for pour tomorrow at 7 am

Pouring the foundation