9 July 2014

Ian continued installing the fire blocking while Perry started putting on the steel strapping (that ties the top and bottom of the walls together) and I put on a few more gusset plates.  Sean came mid-morning and left again fairly soon to go spend more of our money at Goodro’s.  Ian and Perry, with final checking by Sean when he returned, pushed and pulled the building structure so that all the walls were perfectly plumb and square.  At noon I took Dolores down to Green Mountain Garage for her annual physical and to have the grounding wire for the main cabin door stairs repaired.  Chree took the dogs up to the Robert Frost interpretive trail at the Breadloaf Conference Center in Ripton.  After their lunch, Sean, Ian, and Perry started putting on sheathing to stabilize the house walls in advance of building the (very heavy) roof structure.  Sean sketched the roof / soffit / door / window header detail in full scale on the back of a piece of Advantech, so that Chree and I could visualize and argue about the size of the roof overhang.  After a quick mediation phone call to Matt Sargent at Efficiency Vermont, we’ll be using a 24″ overhang, just as Chree wants. In the evening, Chree and I went to a quite interesting presentation on loons held at the Salisbury church.