Opened checking and savings accounts at the National Bank of Middlebury – Brandon Branch. Then, in between rain showers and thunderstorms, removed the concrete forms from around the shed footers. The forms came away from the concrete quite easily – thanks to the liberal application of oil that Steve and I had
applied. Getting them out of the ground was laborious, but not as bad as I feared. The outer side of the south end footer, which multiple landslides had all but buried, proved to be one of the easier removals. Once that form was removed, built a rudimentary retaining wall out of rebar and plywood to stop the 500 pound boulder about 6′ up in the bank that is threatening the southeast corner. Do you see anything wrong with this concept? Was going to remove all the screws from the forms, preparatory to reusing the wood to build forms for the concrete columns, but instead just threw a tarp over them in the back of
the pickup. I’m sure they’ll still be there in a couple of weeks... Used the leveling sight to try (once again… and again without success) to determine just how high to build the shed columns. Got the height “narrowed down” to somewhere between 7′ 6″ and 7′ 10″. Compromise at 7′ 8″???? Found ½″ of water in the baking pan in the cabinet directly under the kitchen sink faucet, so spent some quality time before dinner with a tube of adhesive caulk, sealing the bejesus out of my fingers and every crack I could find. While I’m happy the pan caught the water, I HATE water leaks!!!! In keeping with real-manhood, read the tube label AFTER finishing the sealing job and found that the caulk takes 7 – 14 days to cure, with no water contact allowed for at least 24 hours. Doing the day’s dishes in the bathroom sink was a novel experience. In retrospect, maybe I should have just taken them into the shower…
applied. Getting them out of the ground was laborious, but not as bad as I feared. The outer side of the south end footer, which multiple landslides had all but buried, proved to be one of the easier removals. Once that form was removed, built a rudimentary retaining wall out of rebar and plywood to stop the 500 pound boulder about 6′ up in the bank that is threatening the southeast corner. Do you see anything wrong with this concept? Was going to remove all the screws from the forms, preparatory to reusing the wood to build forms for the concrete columns, but instead just threw a tarp over them in the back of
the pickup. I’m sure they’ll still be there in a couple of weeks... Used the leveling sight to try (once again… and again without success) to determine just how high to build the shed columns. Got the height “narrowed down” to somewhere between 7′ 6″ and 7′ 10″. Compromise at 7′ 8″???? Found ½″ of water in the baking pan in the cabinet directly under the kitchen sink faucet, so spent some quality time before dinner with a tube of adhesive caulk, sealing the bejesus out of my fingers and every crack I could find. While I’m happy the pan caught the water, I HATE water leaks!!!! In keeping with real-manhood, read the tube label AFTER finishing the sealing job and found that the caulk takes 7 – 14 days to cure, with no water contact allowed for at least 24 hours. Doing the day’s dishes in the bathroom sink was a novel experience. In retrospect, maybe I should have just taken them into the shower…
