Thursday, March 29, 2012
12:49 PM – The Marvin Windows were delivered at 8:20 AM without a call ahead so I could give the crew advanced notice of the delivery. The delivery was ‘to the curb’ and it’s not like the framing crew can always stop at a moments notice to climb down to help bring the windows “inside” (though, at this point, the line between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ was ambiguous).
Friday, March 30, 2012
6:52 AM – Just spent half an hour clearing the side yard of salvaged wood to make room for sorting the scrap metal. There’s a lot less site cleaning since there’s little to no demo work left to do.
8:52 AM – Weldco came to put in the additional basement steel columns. Adjusting the floor from BR#1 to BR#2 was discussed.
11:25 PM – Just spent two hours setting tarps in preparation of tonight’s storm.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
6:10 AM – Woke at 3:15 AM to find the house full of leaks. I put every bucket, wastebasket, and garbage can I could find under the worst of the leaks. The only room untouched was the one in which I was sleeping.
12:54 PM – Fell back to sleep around 6:30 AM and woke again at 10:30 AM to the sound of water drips hitting the baseboard heater next to the bed. I climbed up to the 2nd. floor deck and, for the next two hours, swept off the water as it continued to rain.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Today is my 8th. anniversary on Long Island.
10:00 AM – From 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM or so yesterday I worked on draining the tarp of water and doing what I could to correct the slopes for drainage; saw horses would have been very helpful.
5:55 PM – It started sprinkling at 5:00 PM; now it’s a steady downpour. So much water is coming through the tarps, it’s necessary to bail out the 35 gallon garbage cans below the more steady streams.
10:15 PM – The rain finally stopped. I’ve bailed and mopped the floors nearly non-stop for four hours. I’m exhausted. There’s only about a dozen drips from the “ponds” on the second floor.
When covered with tarps, these wall frames acted as “ponds” when it rained. Saw horses, under the tarp, with plywood or 2×4 inclines, might have helped prevent the collection of so much water.
Monday, April 2, 2012
6:30 AM – I woke around 5:15 AM and emptied the buckets and cans and mopped the floors. The plastic over my DeWalt charger shifted during the night and it got wet and shorted-out. I’m about 20 minutes behind schedule as I wanted to be on the second floor deck at daybreak to get most of the water off before the crew showed up.
9:27 AM – The ‘mop-up’ is effectively over. The sun is shining. The second floor north wall went up and the north-west wall is going up now. Had they been up on Friday, with the tarp, the water would have run off better instead of streamed in so much. And I wouldn’t have had such an exhausting weekend.
JaMa House 