7 December 2015

A very busy, very productive Monday. Ian and Doug were here shortly after 7 and we got straight to work putting up wall studs, with the two real carpenters doing the installing while I took their stud orders, ran down to the basement to make the cuts, brought the studs back upstairs, then repeated the process ad infinitum. Only inched Ian one time, and that in the good direction.  (For those who don’t speak carpenter, that means I read the tape wrong and cut a stud exactly 1″ too long.)  The guys went through 20 pounds (about 1,400) 3″ deck screws and the pile of 2x4x16’s shrank considerably. Goodro’s truck came at 8 with a bunch of 2x6’s to build the (changed) wall between the living / dining room and the master bedroom.  Having a thicker wall there will allow us to better sound-insulate the bedroom. Right after lunch I took the Kubota to Middlebury and dropped it off for hydraulic hose repairs.  By the end of the day most of the north end of the main level was framed in.  The house is starting to look like a house!  After dinner I did some internet research on laundry chute spring-loaded covers, needed for the clothes pass-thru from the master bathroom to the laundry… and didn’t like anything I saw at what I thought was a reasonable price and didn’t like the price of anything I saw that looked good.