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November 2006
Journal

Here's a list of November happenings, excluding 20' Yurt Raising. Photos at bottom.

11/02/06 - Thursday

275.04 Materials transport

  • Miscellaneous yurtraising materials
  • time: 15 min

228.20 Buy scaffolding

  • Continued disassembly in 30' yurt
  • time: 0.5 hrs

11/03/06 - Friday

228.20 Buy scaffolding

  • Completed disassembly in 30' yurt
  • Vacuumed, finally!
  • time: 3 hrs

275.04 Materials transport

  • unloaded stuff in Xterra
  • time: 15 min

213.04 attach decking

  • Chris cut more boards Cass had marked
  • time: 1 hr

11/04/06 - Saturday

213.01 Posts + Beams (Deck)

  • Chris attached beam and joists
  • time: 3 hrs

275.04 materials transport

  • doors, lattice, center ring, and rafter supports transported via Vermoose
  • time: 5 hrs

11/05/06 - Sunday

213.04 attach decking

  • Chris cut more boards
  • time: 2 hrs

275.04 materials transport

  • Chris unloaded doors and center ring, then he and Cass moved all but rafters up to the site.
  • time: 3 hrs

213.01 Posts + Beams (Deck)

  • more joists
  • time: 2 hrs

11/6/06 - Monday

Notes:

213.04 attach decking

  • cleaned up and sealed cut boards, organized and started screwing them into joists/beams by 20'
  • Time: 6.75hrs

11/7/06 - Tuesday

Notes:

  • heavy equipment working loudly (and more importantly, closeby) and cass in yurt all day until done. She went uptop to work with headlamp afterwards until rain started.

213.04 attach decking

  • more boards screwed in by 20'
  • Time: 2hrs

20' Yurt Raising, 11/8/06 - 11/12/06

Details and photos here


11/13/06 - Monday

Notes:

  • Rainy. Cass not feeling well; past days has caught up. Work outside getting wet undesirable. C+C need to regroup with regards to finishing yurt raising.

213.15 yurt raising

  • got wet paper up off floor and into garbage bag, using as best could to sop up water (since no dry rags onsite).
  • Time: 0.5hr

11/14/06 - Tuesday

Notes:

  • No site work. Rain. Break in rain used for gathering kindling and raking leaves out of ditches.

11/15/06 - Wednesday

Notes:

  • Not raining but sure looks like it will rain and everything is soaked, wet, puddles. Makes for yucky construction and also is very very buggy. Had to return to yurt for lunch. Spent while raking more leaves out of ditches. Then also sweeping off deck a

213.04 attach decking

  • Cut boards attached, marked next joist bay, select and mark boards for fill-in between yurts.
  • Time: 3.25hr

11/17/06 - Friday

213.15 Raise 20/30' yurts

  • worked on figurin' out what is wrong. Measured some stuff, seems top cover is too small. Called Pacific Yurts, they want to help us fix problem and asked us to send pix. Waiting for reply.
  • time: 3 hrs

11/18/06 - Saturday

275.04 materials transport

  • remaining deck boards loaded onto vermoose
  • time: 45 min

213.04 attach decking

  • Cass marked boards for cutting and joists for placement
  • Cass learned use of the circular saw; she and Chris cut more boards.
  • Cass prepped cut boards for sealing
  • time: 4.25 hrs

11/19/06 - Sunday

275.04 materials transport

  • deck boards taken up top, unloaded, and stacked on deck
  • time: 2.5 hrs

213.01 Posts + Beams (Deck)

  • Three beams affixed
  • time: 4.5 hrs

213.04 attach decking

  • Sanded and sealed cut boards
  • marked next cuts
  • laid out ready boards for screwing
  • time: 3 hrs

11/20/06 - Monday

Notes:

  • grey again. (which means no warmth while working!)

213.04 attach decking

  • marked boards, screwed in all cut boards, marked blocking boards
  • Time: 5hrs

275.04 materials transport

  • carried 2*8's up top (good warm-up breaks)
  • Time: 0.25hr

11/21/06 - Tuesday

Notes:

Sun. Woohoo. Still cold though, some areas w/ice never even melted.

275.04 materials transport

  • carried 2*8's up top (good warm-up breaks)
  • Time: 0.5hr

213.01 posts + beams (deck)

  • made built-up beams, got chris' beam from over weekend squared up, measured and marked joists for that, got next beam on north side lined up
  • Time: 3.75hrs

11/22/06 - Wednesday

275.04 materials transport

  • Moved 2*8 boards
  • Moved floorboard remnants from under 20' yurt to deck to dry, then into 30' yurt for inside building tasks
  • time: 2.5 hrs

213.34 winterize

  • Covered water pipes @ utility shed site...hope they don't freeze!
  • time: 1 hr

213.01 Posts + Beams (Deck)

  • Raised another post, only six to go!
  • Set another beam
  • Attached bracing
  • Built up beams
  • time: 4 hrs

213.04 attach decking

  • More boards cut
  • Test fit, sanded and sealed cut boards
  • Attached boards on north side
  • time: 5.5 hrs

11/24/06 - Black Friday

Notes:

  • No money was spent by C&C today!

213.01 Posts + Beams (Deck)

  • last six deck posts cut and placed
  • two more beams built up, might be the last oof built up beams
  • three joists set
  • blocking near 20' yurt installed
  • time: 6.75 hrs

213.27 (MLA/Deck) shape ground for drainage/lay gravel/stone over site:

  • put gravel on deck area prior to putting up remaining beams
  • time: 1.75 hrs

275.04 materials transport

  • more board moving: joists and beams from shed, floorboards to 30' yurt
  • time: 1.75 hrs

11/25/06 - Saturday

Notes:

  • Did some miscellaneous site cleanup in prep for arrival of snow

213.01 Posts + Beams (Deck)

  • C&C squared up two sections in order to see how close the two sections of deck will come together in back of the yurts
  • time: 2 hrs

11/26/06 - Sunday

213.04 attach decking

  • More boards cut, sanded, sealed
  • Cass attached boards to SW corner and is nearing the turn toward the back stretch
  • time: 5.25 hrs

213.34 winterize

  • Cleaned up cement-related tools and supplies
  • time: 0.5 hrs

213.01 Posts + Beams (Deck)

  • Chris discovers that ten of the twelve on-hand 45 degree joist hangers angle the wrong way. D'oh!
  • The north and south sides of the deck can be square to each other with a bit of tweaking to the posts. Yippee!
  • time: 4 hrs

 

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