Flat and Level

We've been up working on the land for several weekends now, and, I have to admit, the progress doesn't look impressive. Marie's parents offered to come up and help us this weekend. Once Jim showed up, the structure seemed to fly up!

At first Jim and I worked on the floor girders. They went in fine except for one pier that was about a half inch too high. I had designed the pier-to-beam joint system to be adjustable with diffent shim thicknesses, so that wasn't too awfully hard to take care of. The other 11 piers were fine. Since 11/12 is more than 90%, I'm still claiming that we get an A for the pier heights.

While we were doing the girders, Marie and Julie worked on the patio. It was a lot of weight for them, but they did it really well and had all the pavers laid before we had the girders finished. That's over 90 pavers - nearly two tons! The pavers fit in perfectly between the footing pads we had done last week, and that was reassuring.

For the subfloor, Jim and I got the sheets in place while Marie and Julie drove nearly all the nails. The subfloor makes a nice shady place that Luke discovered almost immediately. We were done by about noon on Sunday! It's hard to believe that walls will be going up next week.