29 June 2015

Sonny arrived at 7 and, over the course of the morning, put in all the blocking between the floor joists where the top plates of the basement walls will be attached, where those walls run parallel to the joists.  I helped with some of the chop-sawing.  Sean came for a couple of hours late morning (staying again for lunch… is there a pattern developing here?) to talk about design and construction methodology issues.  In the afternoon, Sonny and I laid out the basement interior wall and doorway rough opening positions for the utility room, both guest bedrooms, and the guest bath.  That effort turned out to be trickier than expected due to a certain lack of squareness in the concrete foundation… and that some of the through slab plumbing lines weren’t exactly where they were “supposed” to be.  Can you say, “Ooops”?  With a few minutes left in the workday, figured I had time to get to Green Mountain Electric before they closed at 5.  Arrived at 4:27 to find the door locked… but the employees hadn’t left yet (they really close at 4:30), so they let me in to quickly buy 440 feet of Schedule 40 PVC electrical conduit and associated fittings, some of which will become the septic system vent line.  Nothing but the finest for our crap, that’s my motto!  For dinner took a bunch of leftovers down the hill to combine with Kate’s.  We also “sampled” a bottle of Sapling maple-flavored bourbon that I ostensibly bought for Chree today.  That stuff slid down far, far too easily!