Construction Becomes My Full-Time Job

Friday, Apr 3 was my last day with my previous full-time employer.  While many in the country (and some at my former employer) are being laid off due to COVID-19, this was a voluntary departure for me.  I gave notice on March 16, well before the future magnitude of the economic impact of COVID-19 in the US was clear to the average citizen.  (I kind of had an inkling, though many aspects of the timing and time course of events were still surprising.)

This now makes our little construction company my full time job.  I scheduled all of this to (supposedly) correspond with the delivery of my SIPs (structural insulated panels).  However, because of weekends taken delivering Raederle to and recovering her from a trip to Costa Rica, I lost a bit of the time I expected to have for removing the old floor (“deflooring” as I’ve been calling it) and reinstalling the new one.  Then, in a pleasant surprise, my SIPs arrived more than a week earlier than expected on Mar 25.  So now I’m a little “behind the eight ball“.  (Q: “How will house construction go?”  A: “Without a doubt”)

I want to try to update more often so that the rapid progress can be reported, but I have to balance that against getting the most out of the usable working hours.  So we will see how that goes.

New joists
I spent free time over the winter cutting new joists (Jan 3)
Floor deconstruction
When the weather looked good I began deflooring the house (Mar 25)
Removing moldly boards
As I suspected, the water during the winter had grown some mold (Mar 31)
Deflooring in progress
Deflooring in progress, most of the rockwool removed (Mar 26)
Floor stripped down
Much of the floor stripped down to PT plywood (Apr 1)
New joists installed
First row of new joists installed between I-beam and rim joists, and leveled (Apr 4)
Reinstalled subfloor
First portion of subfloor reinstalled over new joists (Apr 4)

 

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