Tuesday, March 11, 2008






Monday the crew erected the posts & glu-lam beams that hold up the covered porch and then set the rest of the bonus room trusses. They added more bracing to everything and were ready for today when the 2nd part of the truss package arrived. This morning John, Ron & Bert set the trusses above the entry and I got Logan to spread another truckload of gravel up by the travel trailer so the crane truck could park and unload onto the back of the house. Everything went well but there were two problems: the crane operator damaged one of the trusses when he missed removing one of the metal straps that was holding the bundle to the rest of the package. As soon as he lifted, there was a loud crack/splintering sound. The upper chord was broken about 10 feet up, along with about 8" on the tail and a 3 foot crack down the middle up where the chain was attached. The truss company has a fellow we can call out to repair everything but Ron says he can easily do the repair himself. Ron also noticed the 4 trusses that go over the kitchen and dining nook are designed to give a 12 foot ceiling instead of the 10 foot called for in the plans. I told them to just go ahead & set everything as we received it. Then we will see how much framing time and material is required to put the ceiling back to 10 feet and I will get some credit back. The truss package was already at a much better price($10,369 vs $18,267) than my quote from Kingston Lumber, so I won't make to big a fuss over this. We also used the crane to lift one of the Shower/tub combos & the small shower into place. John says his crew can move the jetted tub into the master bath and also handle the other tub/shower that goes in the bonus room.

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