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Post date: May 21, 2015 2:59:27 AM
Finally we rose above ground level today. There are a couple of stud walls to see. This work happened while I was away in Santa Fe picking out flooring (cork), countertops (Corian “Verde”) and kitchen cabinet wood (probably Black Walnut). It took a big crew (six) all morning to cut the studs and headers to size. In the afternoon they assembled and raised several walls. We don’t have the sheathing yet, so they are just bare studs. They will probably get the rest of the walls raised tomorrow, since they are all cut to size. It was probably good that I was not on the building site most of today, because Eli had his hands full with so many workers to keep busy, plus working out the exact dimensions of the lumber to cut. We will probably need another truckload of 2x4’s before tomorrow is done.While I was in Santa Fe with Sybille, the interior designer, I visited four showrooms, including one cabinet shop. We decided that Lyptus (a Eucalyptus hybrid) was not very exciting, rough cherry (with knots) too red, and Black Walnut probably the right combination of interesting grain figure and color to go between the flooring and the countertop. Last week we had chosen a slate flooring for the entry, so the cork had to go with the slate.
We will visit another cabinet shop on Monday (yes, Memorial Day) in Española - not so far as Santa Fe.
While I was in Santa Fe I took delivery (from a truck driver) of the hardening agent (siliconate) for the garage concrete floor. We read the label when I returned to Taos and realized that, once applied, the floor could not be trod upon for six hours. That meant we had to apply it late this afternoon. So we cleared all the lumber off the garage floor and swept it clean. I then washed it down with the garden hose. We poured on the liquid and used brooms to keep the surface wet for 25 minutes by sweeping the liquid to dry spots. Soon some areas beaded up with the water-based liquid, and we had to brush these hard to get them to take more material. I will probably repeat this process at the end of the work day tomorrow.
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