by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 13, 2004 | HousePosts
They come. They leave. They charge five hundred bucks. Of course, they’re completely justified. You drive to the job. You see that it’s raining like a bad boy and you know that there’s the potential for lightning. You call the dispatcher. You collect...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 12, 2004 | HousePosts
Might as well face it, I’m a victim of lluvia… It’s hard to know just yet whether or not this is going to present a problem, but early this AM it was pouring like a bad-boy (or girl, depending on your prefs.) This may mean that the crane can’t...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 9, 2004 | HousePosts
Beam me up Scotty! Things are going slow but sure at the moment. On Thursday a crane will show up to lift two insanely large ridge beams into place. (Engineering overkill if you ask me.) These things are about sixteen inches tall and forty feet long. And in all...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 4, 2004 | HousePosts
Sorry about the dog… Things are progressing nicely. The gable ends will all be sheathed by the end of the day, rafters are being placed and very shortly (meaning sometime around Monday) the crane will come to set the ridge beams. Before you know it it’ll...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 2, 2004 | HousePosts
NOW we’re lookin’ like a house… It doesn’t take much more than this. Add a couple of gable ends and suddenly it starts looking like a real house. It also softened the edges somehow. The framing, while beautiful, still had the house feeling a...
