3 June 2014

Back to Goodro’s first thing to put the final color coat on the two 19′ 9″ steel beams.  Also picked up a 4″ x 4″ SDR light-wall wye-coupling (not to be confused with a regular SDR wye-coupling – which costs 6-times more) to replace the tee-coupling we put in, by mistake, for the roof valley drain.  Got back to Fern Lake just before 9 to find that Fyles Brothers had already come and gone, leaving 14.1 gallons of propane in Dolores’ gizzards. Kevin and Scott came just before 11 to pull apart the garage frost wall footer forms.  Larry and Victor got here an hour later and the Long Ridge crew put up the frost wall forms and rebar, pinning the latter into the cellar foundation walls.  Chuck pulled in at 2 to put 40 psi of air pressure on all the radiant floor PEX tubing… testing for any installation leaks (none) and to identify any leaks created during the concrete floor pour later this week.  I filled in a few shovelfuls of dirt around the sauna drain, set the drain so it is perfectly level, then put some scrap Blueboard around the edges to serve as expansion joints for the sauna floor (which, obviously, will be subjected to some major temperature swings and commensurate expansion and contraction).  A Carrara mixer delivered 5 cubic yards of 3,000 psi concrete at 2 o’clock.  By 4, with the Garage frost walls filled and floated, the Long Ridge gang was packed up and gone, so I took a quick plunge ahead of the line of thunderstorms bearing down on Fern Lake from the west.  Made it back to the shelter of the RV with minutes to spare.