The morning was pretty slow and frustrating. I worked with Johnny, Nick, and Chris to finish the upper interior sheathing. It was pretty tedious; the pair on the scaffold would measure while the pair on the ground waited, then those on the scaffold would wait while the cut was made. We really struggled after lunch attempting to sheath the upper exterior on the west side. We cut and placed two pieces only to re-cut them later.

Later in the afternoon, Luke and I tilted up the microlam columns and braced them. Then the two of us and Ty double-checked our measurements for the building’s main beam. We cut the LVL beams and connected them in a tongue-and-groove pattern. After some supper, Ty and I got on the scaffold while the Nicks used a manlift to raise the beams. They slid the beams through the slots in the gables until Ty and I could place and fasten them to the columns. We clamped and fastened the final piece of the beam in place and called it a day around 9pm. Tomorrow the roof.