1 August 2014

The brothers LaFlam (Sean & Ben) spent the day putting sheathing on the east and south sides of the roof.  I thought I had been paying my Goose Creek bills on time, but maybe not, ‘cause late morning Ben “accidently” lost control of a large piece of sheathing, which came sliding off the roof, but did not slice my head off.  Instead, it hit me in the left side ribs, where I do have lots of padding.  Fred spent several hours putting up even more joist hangers, then worked with Perry for the rest of the day installing the rafter tails and outlooks on the north side of the house.  Kevin Haight arrived at 8 to get set up for building the chimney.  Goodro’s boom truck got here at 8:30 with a good-sized load of concrete block, flue pipe, cement, and concrete mix.  I spent the day in the cellar with Kevin helping (and learning) while he laid the first six courses of block.