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Post date: Apr 18, 2015 2:48:10 AM
Today was rather slow on the construction site. Eli, the builder, went to the bank to pay for the ICFs in advance of manufacture (they are special order) and he also ordered rebar and the eight inches of sub-slab insulation. We also (finally) got our building permit, and we need a couple of inspections (foundation and electrical) before we can proceed. I also had to get new auto and medical insurance and solve some online banking issues with PayPal and Wells Fargo - all of which take time.Nicanor and Jake cut and bent rebar all day, ending with tying the cross-pieces at the bottom of the footings that hold the long pieces in position between the wood forms. Monday they will finish making the verticals and tie them in place so that the footings can be poured on Tuesday. Or, rather, the concrete will be pumped, not poured. Even Taos is big enough to have two different size concrete pump trucks.
I found a lightly-used, but old, router in the community barn and bought a v-groove bit for it. I plan to ‘carve’ the year and initials of the major players on the front door lintel: architect, owner, builder.I printed my design full size on four sheets of paper and clamped one to a scrap of 2x10 left from the concrete forms for practice. But when I used the router on it, the air from the rapidly rotating bit blew the paper away from the wood. So I will need to glue the pattern onto the wood using homemade wallpaper paste, then wash or sand away the paper and paste after it is carved. All the nice-looking fonts have variable-thickness lines, which will be tricky to make look right. Thus I practice!
I have been making a time-lapse video of this project, photographing one frame every minute (to play back at 30 frames a second). But this week there was not a lot to see in the video - mostly blowing clouds. So I will edit out most of my ‘footage’.Oh, yes, we did get the skid loader out of the pit by bending the plastic water pipe down and driving over it.
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