9 June 2014

Sean and Ian"Yukon" Birkett arrived just before 9 bearing a truckload of 2x6x12 PT which became, over the course of the day, sill plates for the house.  The sill plates were fastened to the foundation walls using the embedded ½″ galvanized J-bolts and a thick bead of Lumber Lock construction adhesive. Used the Kubota as a improvised clamp to hold down two of the 2x6’s that wanted to bow up when first installed on one of the Garage walls. We discovered that the foundation walls were exactly the length they were supposed to be and were only out of square ⅛″… which is pretty darn impressive!  Thank you, Larry Kaufmann and the Long Ridge crew, for a concrete job exceptionally well done!!!!  Between beers with the boys and a much-needed cool-down swim, helped Dave Todd move a bunch of firewood from a seasoning stack into Kate’s woodshed.