Ted, the welder I usually see two or three times a year, was in to weld all of the structural steel joints together and attach straps to all of the columns. We are now ready for the big three to start their rough-ins - HVAC, plumbing and electrical. The first two start Monday!
The team from BHM was in again today to do the garage, porch and back walkout stairs. It was a lot of heavy lifting, but luckily the weather has cooled down a bit.
BHM was in again today working on the forming for tomorrow's pour of the walkout steps, front porch and steps, and garage. It takes quite a bit of work and a fine attention to detail for this kind of work (ie you don't want to mess this up!) - that's why I rely on Tom for this work.
Tom's entire team was hard at work this morning, bombing the concrete into the basement and spreading it out. It's a tough job, but much better than laying brick on a sunny scaffold!
Meanwhile, Junior and his team were in to install the housewrap on the house. With the masonry still about four weeks away, it's always good to have a professional wrap the house and make it as tight as possible for any weather that might blow our way. Once the windows are in, we'll be pretty water tight.
In the afternoon, Tom and his brother worked on forming the porch and back walkout stairs, while the concrete dried enough to begin the "helicoptering" process (basically, smoothing!).
Unfortunately, Tom found out that their concrete supplier, a big local company, was shut down by Ministry of Labour late last night and we weren't able to get a substitute company in this morning. We've had to delay the concrete pour, and Tom and countless other crews around the city will be sitting twiddling their thumbs... too bad.
While Virgilio's crew finished the roof, the boys from BHM were in all day prepping the basement and garage slab for the pour tomorrow. I always love the care and attention that Tom and his crew take to doing a proper job with the slab - proper wire mesh placement, a good amount of gravel for drainage, vapour barrier and flashing, as well as using the laser to set up a perfect level line throughout the basement.
The roofers started today (Miguel was nice enough to lift all of the materials onto the roof, which saved a bunch of time for Virgillio and his team!). I don't expect them to finish, because, you guessed it - it's Euro Cup time and the Portuguese team is up against the wall. Tomorrow, we'll have the rest of our roof in place!
