Giiwe

Wow, This Seems to be Dragging On!

There are times on this project where everything just seems to take forever!

The siding company was missing for ten days. After getting a sizable interim payment, the drywaller went incommunicado, and the trim guys miss days for no known reason. And to top it all off, the danger sign at the end of Ivy Acres seems to have given up and fallen over. Is that a bad omen?

Getting Down to Details

Although we had several days of rain, some work continued on the outside. More of the siding went up and the soffit is being installed.

Working in the Sun

The trim guys set up drying racks for the pine to start drying and acclimatizing to the room. This requires a week. In the meantime the heat is turned on in the house.

Re-Starting without Passing Inspection (yet)

The Trexx is now done but we put plywood down around outside walls to allow workers to put up their scaffolding for installation of the siding. The railing still needs to be installed as well as the screening for the screened porch.

D- day: Drywall, Deck and Dock

Outside Work

Given we are still battling with the City of Ottawa inspector, we are not allowed to work on the inside. We can get some work done on the outside.

Jake is putting in a joist hanger for the front porch

Work Stopped- Mostly

As the team works through the issues related to the Framing, Plumbing and HVAC inspection, not much is happening on site – crickets… or maybe a praying mantis!

Inspection Issues

We had the building inspector come on Tuesday after Thanksgiving. This was our 5th inspection and this was the our 5th different inspector. Each time we need to explain the building technique. It appears they do not familiarize themselves with the file before they come. They also ask us to supply them documents provided for the building permit. Apparently it is easier to get them from the clients then to get them from their own office.

Some Success – Some Failure

Rob on the Kubota – hauling out my wayward dock anchor

I was thrilled to see this small Kubota on site yesterday. In a break in the action I asked Rob to come down and see if we could pull the dock anchor up. We got it and pulled it out.