Fantastic work today. We built-up and placed the remaining headers only to find that the rough openings were askew. So we took everything down and adopted a new strategy: start from the southwest corner and work out. This was far more effective and we soon had everything square and plumb. We then added the upper cripples including some nice work by Brittany, Luke, and myself above the southwest corner.

The most exciting part of the late afternoon was building the enormous header across the south side. We lifted half the member into place and used a temporary ‘hinge’ and clamps to align the whole piece. We did this twice so that we had two, two-ply headers over twenty feet long.

We continued working well past quitting time. We added the double-stud frames needed to complete the south and west as well as half of the east side. The other half was assembled on the ground and will be tipped into place tomorrow morning. We made a lot of progress today – everyone worked extremely hard. All said, the day ended twelve and a half hours after it began!