Log 7

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Log 7-

Today was another exhausting one.  Myself and about half of the others spent 12 + hours at the build — not to mention the drive there and back — trying to get everything prepped and ready.  I mainly worked on sheathing the peaks in the morning which took all the way until 1pm to finish.  After that I was tasked to start back up on interior walls and framing those up.  myself and the 2 girls worked the rest of the day on framing up 5 or 6 walls including the bathroom.  The cabin is really starting to come together and its getting more and more exciting to see it unfold.  I can only image what it would be like had I been in the design phase (which I wish I was).  I just cant help but think ever day we get done how fast time flies and how this just doesn’t seem like work.

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Today was a successful day. We arrived Chris was already on site getting tools ready and charging batteries. Our group worked on various task worked in many parts of the house. Chris worked on building the interior walls, while Paul and I revived the tired redwood. We used a planer to reveal and restore the wood. Throughout the storms and running the planer back in and out we kept at it. I rigged up a harness and put up the peaks with Andrew. The harness was very comforting at first but soon it became rather limiting with the amount of slack allowed. We spent most of the day in those harnesses and finally with my feet back on the ground it was time to clean up. For some reason being up in the harness took a lot out of me and I was very happy to hang the tangled piece of nylon up on the container wall.

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Group 2-Day 6

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8-2-11

Day 7

The day started off with light showers and some gusts of wind then the sun came out and it became a nice day, why I’m I starting with a weather report? Well I’ll get back to that in a moment.

Today’s task was quite simple, John and I tackled the bottom layer of interior sheathing with O.S.B. I didn’t really know that much about O.S.B. except that it was a type of particle, glue lam, plywood-ish thing. But I guess that it is also a vapor barrier. So the glue and the material being pressure treated make it impervious to water? That make scenes, I guess. Then what happens to the barrier when you punch a screw into it? Does it still keep its vapor repealing attributes? I’ll believe that it does and that’s why it’s important to punch through it a minimal amount of times.

While sheathing the northeast corner, creating a sweet cut away detail (this detail is awesome and it showcases all of the wall’s inner workings), John was up on a latter making sure the angle was correct for the cut away when I hear from him, “Oh, our tent just did a flip!!!”, a sight that he saw through the upper window. To this comment I responded, “I’ll be right back,” and promptly ran out to gather up the saws, cords and the tent.

Then the sun came out and it became a nice day.

Out.

Nic Pietron

Group 2