One of those days…

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Tuesday, August 9th 2011

Task :

– Pauly D and I set out to retrieve our hardware (turnbuckles, fasteners, ect.)

Hope:

– To retrieve “all” of our  hardware. Our several shipments will be there, on time, and ready for us to retrieve.

Outcome:

– We return to the site with “some” of our hardware.

Lesson Learned:

– Sometimes, and I mean sometimes, the person helping you is slightly less enthusiastic about the urgency of your requests. The thing in the catalog is not always the thing that you had in mind or the thing that was described after hearing your idea of the thing. You don’t always get what you want…

But Paul and I score some pretty cool turnbuckles.

Task:

-Pair up and prepare the wood for the shading structure……wood did not show up.

Lesson Learned:

-Your project doesn’t always succeed the priority of other projects.  Although discouraging, it shouldn’t be demotivating.

Task:

– Finish Wrapping the LVL’s with cedar.  Chris and I set out to finish wrapping the existing columns with cedar 1x’s.  He’s been a great help in the success of a lot of these projects.  He keeps things at a high pace and is really interested in what’s going on.  With his help we were able to finish the deal in good time…

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Tuesday, August 9th 2011

Task :

– Pauly D and I set out to retrieve our hardware (turnbuckles, fasteners, ect.)

Hope:

– To retrieve “all” of our  hardware. Our several shipments will be there, on time, and ready for us to retrieve.

Outcome:

– We return to the site with “some” of our hardware.

Lesson Learned:

– Sometimes, and I mean sometimes, the person helping you is slightly less enthusiastic about the urgency of your requests. The thing in the catalog is not always the thing that you had in mind or the thing that was described after hearing your idea of the thing. You don’t always get what you want…

But Paul and I score some pretty cool turnbuckles.

 

Task:

-Pair up and prepare the wood for the shading structure……wood did not show up.

Lesson Learned:

-Your project doesn’t always succeed the priority of other projects.  Although discouraging, it shouldn’t be demotivating.

 

Task:

– Finish Wrapping the LVL’s with cedar.  Chris and I set out to finish wrapping the existing columns with cedar 1x’s.  He’s been a great help in the success of a lot of these projects.  He keeps things at a high pace and is really interested in what’s going on.  With his help we were able to finish the deal in good time…

 

 

surgeon (august 9)

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I woke up at 6 bright and early, shut off my phone’s alarms and.. fell back asleep. Woke up still intime to make a sandwich and head out the door. It was a cool morning with the smell of rain in the air. Today Andrew and I started stitching the shelving structure together. The fit was perfect but after putting up the long run on the north side we deemed it, well wobbly. I think we took it apart 4 times today. The shelving was taken down and the floor diaphragm was zipped open. We placed blocking and braces in the floor. We sewed it back together and it was looking like it did previous, just less wobbly. After that was finished Andrew ran back to the shop to make a couple pieces which either were lost of never made. We finished up for the day and threw the gloves in the trash. I’ll put on a fresh pair tomorrow but hopefully we are done with the surgery. I backed away from the structure for the first time and really enjoyed the contrast between the new and old. Not after too long the shelves already became a new surface to forget your tools on.

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Group 1 – Team Odd Job

Welcome to design build summer 2011.  My name is John Huebsch, I have decided to blog about the evolution of my tool belt.  I have been on a couple construction sites, but no extensive experience.

Btw – our group name is team odd job because our first day Luke, Mel and I ran around and did some “Odd Jobs.”

How to measure day . . .

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In the amount of very fine sawdust on my clothes, or the laughs from the equipment I waswearing, or better yet how about with Orbitz gum.

 

Once again this day was filled with nothing but the task of trying to get all of the sidingsanded because we still needed to sand the boards for the shelving unit and the interior siding as well.  As the day continues Dusty and I sanded away and since I wanted to be fully protected and I had accumulate a lot of stuff from John so that I could sand and not get sawdust everywhere on me.  Even though a lot ended up on my clothes I was wearinga breathing mask, and tinted skiing goggles, along with a pair of mechanic gloves.  One of the times I was bringing in some wood my mask was down and my goggles were on the top of my head and John told me I could be in the Orbitz gum commercial : “For a dirty mouth clean it up  – For a good clean feeling no matter what”.  Apparently, I was more covered in sawdust than I thought I was.  Well,besides me being covered in dust from head to toe the siding was completed and honestly it feels pretty great not to have to sand anything for away

 

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biscuits (august 8)

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Andrew and I worked yet again all day on the shelving structure. We headed to a local shop to use their biscuit joiner. It was very tedious and difficult to keep the pieces from bowing and separating. I think we literally used all the shops clamps. It was strange not being on site or knowing what was happening with the build. It was a good day. The box of parts was trucked back; Andrew and I are the Ikea instruction manuals for this structure. Tomorrow it will no longer be in a box and realized in full scale. We used hundreds of biscuits, a bottle of glue and about 40 clamps, but after a while the package was complete.

Instructions (august 6)

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Today was the day before our big day off, and it felt like it. Andrew and I cut the entire shelving structure and planed each piece. We ended up with many pieces, too many, hopefully they were all there. We rapped up the shelving structure making it a shelving structure in a box. All it needed now was an instruction manual. We cut early and a much-needed day off was ahead.

Wrapping an existing column with Cedar…easy? Easy, but difficult.

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Today I had hoped to wrap two 14′ LVL columns with 1×6 cedar boards.   The task seemed easy; per column – cut four 1″x6″x16′ cedar boards to 14’10 5/8″..check.  After this step two boards are considered ready for prep, considering they needed to be 5 1/2 inches wide and the actual width of a 1×6 is 5 1/2 inches..BOOM…easy!  Then, rip the other two boards to 3 3/4″ wide (these will go inside the two 5 1/2″ boards, which (2) 7/8″ thick boards plus 3 3/4″ equals 5 1/2″…BOOM…not so easy when you cut them to 3 1/4″!  This meant, that the scraps of these boards had to be paired up, glued, and stapled back together, seamed (mixture of cedar saw dust and white wood glue to make a putty), and sanded.   AND then they would be ready for final fixation!  With some moral support and a lot of self-patience (most of which was exhausted by 3:30 break, ONE of the columns was finished.   The second and pictures will follow in the morning :)