Thursday and Friday's weather smiled on Ruth's Ridge... no rain and moderate temperatures created good conditions for great progress.
On Thursday, while the Brothers Rempel continued with wall construction for the loft, Davis and I stripped the garage forms. As boss and chief schlepper, I took on the additional job of stripping the 45 lovely patio blocks that were the result of a surfeit of concrete ordered for the garage pad. This particular task required some 8 hours of right-angled bending to: strip the forms, remove the nails, stack the wood. A task that managed to drag its sorry self into a bit of Friday morning as well. By end of Thursday, the first garage wall was raised.
By 3 p.m. Friday, all but one of the garage walls was up, and the mudroom is still awaiting a couple of walls on Monday. That means we should be ready to start hoisting roof trusses almost as soon as they arrive on Monday.
We spent a bit of time reviewing our "Smooth Sailing" timeline and were chuffed to learn that we are still effectively on schedule, despite the unknowns we encountered along the way. Ruth and I are most pleased, and DND should be very proud of the results they've achieved with this very demanding build.
Time to raise the roof.
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