26 August 2014

Perry and I finished putting the wall sheathing on the sauna building.  Then we used Goose Creek’s laser level to determine how far above or below an arbitrary reference plane the top wall plate is at every point where a roof rafter will be installed.  Range was from plus ¼″ to minus ⅜″, which makes me glad that we did NOT shim the top plate, as that would have produced a very weak connection between the roof and walls.  Instead, Perry will adjust the height of the seat cut for each rafter’s bird’s mouth by the specified correction, producing (fingers crossed) rafter tops that are in plane with each other. The Fyles Brothers truck put 18½ gallons into Delores’ propane tank… the first fill-up since early June.  Kevin came to wash (with water and a scrub brush, using no muriatic acid per the manufacturer’s instructions) the exterior of the brick chimney.  Then he disassembled and removed all his staging, concrete mixer, etc.  Sometime in the morning the Goodro’s delivery truck dropped off the sauna building windows.  Luther and Ty arrived at 1 to put ice and water shield around the chimney to roof interface and roll all the Zip System tape seams down tight to the roof (per the manufacturer’s installation instructions).  Fingers crossed that the seam rolling has solved the plethora of roof leaks.