March 20, 2008
A bird chirper sunny kind of day to start the framing of the main house. The first day is dedicated to 'pulling' string lines to start off all walls and the enire house 'square'. This is just another opportunity to gauge how your concrete team performed.
The concrete footing and walls can be so out of square and usually the framer can adjust the sill plates to bring the house back to square. (By the way, another example of how 5th grade geometry is worth while to understand. See later posts on use of math skills...).
Shane, my framer, and frankly the best on the island, said that sometimes he has seen really terrible concrete jobs that he can't bring back to square. He confirmed that my concrete team did a 'great job'. I think we were only max a 1/4 inch out of square...and thats considered excellent. We checked the level as well and this is a great time to understand the attention to detail of your framer. One of Shane's employees remarked that it "looked good enough" to start building the walls. Thank the good Lord that Shane brought out his electronic level and we went around to all the corners and made 1/8 to a1/4 inch adjustments so that it would be level. Again, a lot of framers apparently just build walls right on the concrete and how ever the concrete turned out is how ever your floor level is going to be. Yikes!
By the way, my concrete team was B&B concrete, headed by Brent Lang. Brent was so respectful and nice and I would recommend him to anyone. Shane promised him a cup of coffee if the walls were level. He definitely owes Brent a cup of coffee and at least a donut too for a job well done.
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