Well, not actually… The builders were all cleared out. The floor was finished. I needed to wait seven days for the concrete to cure before I could park a car inside. But, the list to call the building finished was/is still pretty long. First the clean-up. I found out that the builders don’t haul away…
Time for concrete
The floor was ready. The conduit in place. Some of the crew arrived around 8:30. The rest of the guys would arrive a short time later. The pour was schedule for 10:00AM. The crew was on site for about 6 hours. Some left early to set up for job scheduled for the next day. Three…
A few details before the floor is poured
There would be a few days before the concrete was schedule so I took that time to dig a few holes. The first was for the water line. I wanted to have a water hydrant in the building just washing and cleaning up. No bathroom. And I didn’t want to worry about freezing and having…
The doors are finished Day 12
Continuing the interior. Day 11
The ceiling is finished Day 10
Interior finish work Day 9
Detail work Day 8
It sure is getting warm Day 7
Work on the building has begun to slow down. The heat is becoming hard to deal with. While the roof and sides on the building did create shade, they had the opposite effect. It was very hot and stuffy. The crew started knocking off for the day around 1:00 PM.
The siding continues. Day 6
As the siding was going up I noticed there were doing very little cutting of the metal. I talked to the crew and found that the siding is ordered by the builder to exact length. While that might be a little more expensive, it is a great time saver. The only exception was the gable…