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– Today was the most exciting day by far.  at the beginning we were still working with the headers on the south wall and even had to take them down to adjust them.  I mostly worked on the south headers then the east wall towards the end of the day.  The exciting part was towards the end when all of the headers, the south stud wall fully completed and the west and east stud walls partially completed!  Did I mention it was another grueling 13 hour day?  If we continue at this pace I imagine us growing quite weary and groggy quite fast, we shall see!

side note: day 3 of not feeling like WORK

Log 2

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– The day started quite early at 5:45 with Lyle and I volunteering to come in early and finish the sanding.  It went really well esspecially because there were only two of us which help a lot.  the sanding got done right on time — however futile the efforts of our preciseness will be — and people started to show up.  The day got off to a slow but neccessary start.  As a matter of fact, the day stayed at a slow pace because we needed to make sure the columns were sqaure and true.  Its really starting to come togther esspecially now that the headers are going on!  It’s all starting to come together.  I left at 620 ending a 12 and a half hour day lyle was still there when I left!  The best part about this build is that it doesn’t even feel like work!

7-29-11

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Again today we made very good progress. The main column supports for both the West and South Wall were completed and the headers for the two walls were constructed. The groups seem to be a bit shaky in the morning as to what needs to get done, or how to get started. The biggest problem Continue reading →

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– Im sure I will remeber this day for a long time. After practicing architecture in theory and in models and small scale expirements, I am finally getting to actually build something. Contrary to popular opinion, i do not have much of any building experience. Nontheless today was awesome! we got all of the floor framing done minus the cap diaphram on the south and west wall. I got to do a little bit of everthing starting out with the hammer, moving on to the screw gun and finaishing off with the nail gun. the atmosphere in here is great, everyone wants to work and is mor than willing AND we are all friends making it that much more fun. The day ended early with the exception of myself, peter ty john lyle and melissa — im sure im missing a few — because all we had to do is sand with the sander.

7-28-11 Group 3

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A cool shower never felt so good – especially considering how much has been accomplished in the last two days. We got settled at Christine Bleyhl’s house yesterday evening and were swinging hammers by this morning Continue reading →

7-28-11 Group 2

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Upon arriving at the fair ground it was clear to see that we were all very anxious to start on the project, an enthusiasm that probability won’t be there tomorrow. It was nice to see everybody so ready to dive into building something, something real. The thought of creating the design that my classmates worked so hard to realize was also an energy that I could perceive in their presents, Continue reading →

How to measure a day . . .

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It wouldn’t be the number of sheathing that was placed on the floor structure but rather the number of pieces of wood that would fit on the shelves made for the storage compartment.

 

The first day was filled with an abundance of wood, wood and more wood.  After, we had the first meeting for the day we got to work in our groups, John, Luke and I, got the pleasure of doing  a whole bunch of odd jobs.  Our first task of the day was to build a table for the chop saw, which  sounds to be simple but given our first thought was to use a pallet for the top it was more challenging then it needed to be.  The problem with using the pallet was that it made the structure of the table really unstable but we figured it out and the table works just find with the chop saw attached.  After the little job of the table we got the pleasure of unloading the large Budget truck full of wood.  However, we needed to make sure that the storage container everything was going into would have enough room to hold everything in an organized way.  So first we built a shelving unit with three parts to it so that each type of wood could have it’s own area, the tools could be organized when put away, and there would be a place to put our tool belts when we were done.  Then, we made an assembly line and unloaded the truck into the container and everything fit in its designate place and looked very well designed

7-26-11 Group 3

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Today we had an introductory meeting on passive house and then we had a safety meeting to be better prepared for the build site. Then to get ready to build at the state fair we moved all the wall sections and models that we designed and built in the spring semester to the loading bay outside our architecture department. Continue reading →