Tuesday, right?

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Today was a good day. Rough start after a late night… Coffee. Seeing everything coming together gives everyone extra energy/motivation.

Kris and I finished up the slatted area of the kitchen then after a little sketching and discussion on the size, spacing and orientation, we began to assemble frames and remove the seams from the bags. Stretching the burlap was a fairly smooth process, after the realization that my hands were more successful than the canvas pliers, intended for stretching canvas- and tearing burlap. By the end of it the floor was covered in the tattered remains of unused bags, some coffee bean stragglers, staples, etc, etc.. Messes follow me.

With the panels up in place, it made it easier to visualize some options a few of us talked about earlier to resolve the 5 inch spacing of our balusters. The night ended at a decent time. I went home and fell victim, yet again, to a 4-hour marathon nap attack.. Looking forward to finishing the guardrail assembly tomorrow. So. Close.

Catalogue of Cellular Telephone’s Captured Instances

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08/16/2011 Group 1

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…rough weekend

We got Sunday off and boy did I make the best of it. One of my good friends got married and there was an open bar all night. I will spare you of the details because a.) I don’t want this blog session to turn into a small novel and b.) I honestly cannot remember much of what happened after the cake was cut.

Monday morning was a rough wake up and awful drive to work. If you take the rough wake up and multiply it by a factor of 10, that is how my entire day felt. The constant sawing and hammering were like small explosions going off in my head. I helped Andrew fill and wash gabions all afternoon. I am pretty sure anything regarding a power tool was off limits for me. Around 7pm, Nick ordered pizza for the gang; however, I could only muster up the courage to eat 2 slices.

Around 8:30 I left and was sleeping by 8:55.(I am staying 35 minutes away…the math is correct)

Today Andrew and I put up the gabions on the North wall, only to see them buckle upon each other. It was not a pretty site. Half a days work gone down the drain. I had an idea for the East wall which later on worked out great. We took the empty gabions and screwed them on to the furring strips with the tops off. The rocks were washed and then filled in-place. After they were filled, I stitched the tops shut with wire while Andrew salvaged the angled gabion.

The finished product looked great, and we are going to tackle the South gabions tomorrow.

– L. Schneider

8-16-11 trimming thoughts

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Today, one of the biggest thing that was on my mind was how to trim the windows. We had already installed the corner trim, basically an “L” that extended beyond the siding for the two walls its connected, but we still needed to find a solution to trimming the windows. With our limited amount of Richlite, our initial idea was to mimic the “L” at the corners and only use two pieces of Richlite per window edge, yet we soon found a problem in this. It would work on the interior but the exterior needed to show the super insulated window frame detail. We finally decided to use three pieces on the exterior, creating an “L” where the window opening meets the siding to maintain the same detail as the corner, then the third piece would close in the insulated chamber around the window frame. The three images show the original super insulated frame detail, the window opening, and the start of this trimming process.

Red Wood Flooring

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John and I spent most of the day installing reused red wood flooring under the sun shading structure. The project went well, but after completing our installation, we discovered some weak spots underneath the flooring that could potentially cause an accident. John and I then pried up the flooring and took extra precautions to make sure that all the weak spots we reinforced properly. Johnny proved the sturdiness of the reinforced section, and got rid of some frustration, by jumping on it. 

Learning Curve

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DAY 1

Lao Tsu 
said ”A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

My journey as an architect started when I walked into my first design studio.  However, I have not truly begun to walk until I picked up the tools of construction.

As stated before I will be discussing the changes and evolution of my tool belt.

This is the start of day 1, stock and clean.  Thank god I am not on a real construction site cause they would tear into me.

Goal 1: break in the belt.