Wednesday, October 06, 2004
All of the walls are done, internal, external and even closets.
We started putting the roof trusses on and ran into a problem.
The trusses over the master are 5 1/2" longer than the walls that they are supposed to sit upon. We looked at it and determined that one of the floor trusses was installed improperly, and the floor was positioned on top of the incorrectly placed floor truss. Lastly, the load bearing wall was installed on the edge of the floor.
We couldn't find Rob, and didn't know what to do. I had several people here on the clock and they were not being productive.
I called the truss company and they said that they could get another floor truss out today, so I ordered one. The plan is to install an additional floor truss and make the load bearing wall wider, thus accomodating the roof truss.
Of course the truss never came.
Rob finally showed up. Margaret and I talked to him about seeing this thing through and how upset we were that he did not respond to our repeated cell phone calls. He was mad that we called his brother to try and track him down.
We had hoped to have a crane here to lift the trusses into place, but it didn't work out.
Rob got the guys working and had several roof trusses in place by the end of the day.
We started putting the roof trusses on and ran into a problem.
The trusses over the master are 5 1/2" longer than the walls that they are supposed to sit upon. We looked at it and determined that one of the floor trusses was installed improperly, and the floor was positioned on top of the incorrectly placed floor truss. Lastly, the load bearing wall was installed on the edge of the floor.
We couldn't find Rob, and didn't know what to do. I had several people here on the clock and they were not being productive.
I called the truss company and they said that they could get another floor truss out today, so I ordered one. The plan is to install an additional floor truss and make the load bearing wall wider, thus accomodating the roof truss.
Of course the truss never came.
Rob finally showed up. Margaret and I talked to him about seeing this thing through and how upset we were that he did not respond to our repeated cell phone calls. He was mad that we called his brother to try and track him down.
We had hoped to have a crane here to lift the trusses into place, but it didn't work out.
Rob got the guys working and had several roof trusses in place by the end of the day.
