4 December 2015

Ian and Doug arrived shortly after 7 and we continued putting in wall bottom plates on the house main level. As part of that process, we replaced the two temporary 2x4 posts under the long LVL beam with permanent 4x4 PT posts to help support the ceiling load that beam carries.  In theory, those two posts are over the steel columns in the basement so that those two point loads are properly carried down to the house foundation.  Sean came to review progress shortly after lunch, the upshot of which was me spending an hour taking up bottom plates and moving them into the “correct” position.  Guess I should have insisted that Sean be present for the entire layout process.  Sean also recommended that we cut out the area where the master bedroom roll-in shower pan will go, as that job, difficult now, would be virtually impossible once the walls are up.  More already-installed bottom plates were taken up…  Ian and I got the shower pan area excavated while Doug put in blocking between the ceiling joists, to which will be fastened the wall top plates.  Then as day turned into dark, Ian and I got some of the wall top plates put up.