--Framing and walls for first floor of detached garage finished
--Large steel support beam installed in detached garage
--Ceiling/floor put on detached garage
--Plumbing for addition finished
--Gas line for addition (new furnace unit) installed
--Freon line for new AC unit installed
--Old intact bricks that had been removed from garage wall had mortar painstakingly chipped off, in preparation for being merged in with new brick
--Met with lighting specialist and have worked out a plan for most of the lighting in the master bath and laundry room
Obstacles encountered this week:
--Downpour of rain lasting an entire day, which slowed framing work on garage. I can't complain because we're in a moderate drought situation and really need the rain.
--We're re-thinking the truss for the addition. A "truss" is yet another construction term I wasn't completely familiar with, but my online dictionary quickly tells me that it is "a supportive device, usually a pad with a belt, worn to prevent enlargement of a hernia or the return of a reduced hernia." ...oops... that's the medical definition. Never mind. A "truss" in the building context is "a static structure consisting of straight slender members interconnected at joints into triangular units used for spanning or bracing structural elements." In short, it's the triangular unit of wood that goes on the top of buildings and holds the roof up. Wagner had his carpenter nail up a mock-up of the truss that was originally planned so that we could see how it would affect the view outside our (current) bedroom window on the second floor. Turns out that it would block the window a lot more than we had initially envisioned. And it doesn't look too good. So we're now going with a different truss that will not have as steep of a slope and not block the upstairs window as much. This is going to set us back some $$ as we had already ordered and paid for the first truss, but it's worth the last-minute change to have it look nicer.
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