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June 4, 2004
After 12 straight, long days on the job, the HDC crew left at noon today
(Friday) to go home for a long weekend. As you can see in the pictures, they
have had a very productive 12 days. Friday completed the 53rd day of
work on the project from the ground breaking.
The roof and copper flashing is now complete. Bobby Broom, a friend of Murray
Hughes of HDC Contractors, did all of the felting, roofing and flashing by
himself. This is one of the prettiest roof installations I have ever seen.
Also note the partial installation of the exterior wall studs on the basement
floor and just about all of the studs, interior and exterior, completed on the
first floor.
Before you make comments about some of the studs are crooked, let me tell you
that they are not all anchored at top and bottom. They will come back and align
at a later time. The job now is to lay them out and get them up. This
alignment can be done when part of the crew is busy doing something else. This
picture is taken from the back wall of the pantry looking diagonally across the
house to the master bedroom. The chief inspector is on the left.
This picture is from about the middle of the great room looking south towards
the kitchen on the right where the window is. The laundry room is to the left
and the pantry is the metal layout on the floor. Behind the wall is the covered
porch.
This picture is taken as if you were walking out of the master bedroom looking
back to the kitchen. The laundry room is where the crate is, the kitchen where
the higher window is and the window on the right is where we will sit the
breakfast room table so we can look out of it.
This picture is looking back towards where the last picture was taken. The
master bath is to the left of the picture. The master bedroom is in the front
corner. The dining room is through the hall directly behind and to the right of
Becky. The sewing room/bedroom is directly to the right of Becky (her left).
This is taken from the family room looking out through the foyer to the front
door. Becky is standing in the power room trying to figure out if it is big
enough. The stairs to the basement is at the lower right. There is a closet
directly behind Becky and the dining room has the rolling scaffold in it. The
door on the left of the picture goes into the master bedroom.
When the crew
returns next week, we will continue the walls in the basement and put on the
exterior siding.
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