Second day of steel

The front part of the building has five pieces of steel which were put into place on Tuesday morning. These pieces were then bolted together on Wednesday . Unfortunately, the pace of building has slowed down considerably. The builder was on vacation the last days of last week, and this week he had not ordered the second floor floor joists. So work this afternoon had to be suspended.

We met the morning with the architect, Adam, to go over the plans and for him to inspect what has already been done. There were many questions and Mike did not seem to have all the answers. The architect will research some of the questions.

Needless to say, the slow pace of the construction during the last week or so is very frustrating for me, as I am on a time line and will be returning to CT. on August 13th. Mike assures me that he will have the second floor framed by the end of next week. We can only hope and pray that the weather cooperates.

The next large problem is the ordering of the trusses, which Mike was suppose to do last week, but he went on vacation instead. So to date, I do not believe that the trusses have been ordered. Which means that I probably will not see the roof framed while I am here. This is indeed a big disappointment, and I do not know when I will be able to return, just some of the trials and tribulations. I must say that the mountain people have their own time frame and vacations seem to take precedent over work.

We also lost one of the carpenters that came from Michigan. He had worked with Mike at some other job in years past. But last weekend when Mike went on vacation he left and returned to Michigan. But there are some very good carpenters on our job to cover for him.