Day 14-16 (OCT 15-17)

This started off badly with the Nor'easter continuing to blow.  I consulted the pest control company about the termite spray.  Since they have to repeat the treatment if it rains between the treatment and the concrete pour, they recommended deferring the spray for a day.  Since nothing else can be done before the spray is completed, Day 14 is a lost day.

Fortunately, Day 15 broke bright and sunny.  The pest control folks arrived at 1300 and then work actually started to happen.  The vapor barrier went down, the rebar was bent into place the new rebar was epoxied into the old foundation, and the forms were installed for the outside closet.  We are ready for the county inspector.

The inspector arrived and he was good with everything except for the floor height of the outside closet.  He wanted it raised 3 inches.  No big deal.  It was only depressed below the level of the extension room floor to ensure that any water that got into the closet did not seep under the sill plate.  Concrete arrived at 1420 and the madness began.  We were scheduled for 10 yards of concrete.  As it was being poured, four guys were traipsing through the mud to get everything into the right spots and smoothed out.  It turns out that we are about half a yard short and will have to pour the floor of the outside closet when the concrete truck makes its next delivery.  Fortunately, my next door neighbor is having his new driveway poured tomorrow.  We will be able to poach the needed concrete from the three truck loads coming to his house.

The plan for tomorrow is to set the forms for the patio concrete pour, finish the outside closet, move a plant, do the final termite spray on the foundation, and take delivery of lumber for next weeks framing effort.  Unfortunately, it looks like rain early next week, so there will probably be another weather delay because of the need for another termite spray.  Once we get past all of the concrete work, we will be less constrained by weather.

We did have one major hiccup.  When the contractor was measuring for the trusses, he discovered that the planned roof pitch did not fit below the installed solar panels.  As a result, a change to the architect's plans was required along with a notification to the county building office. Initially, we were a bit ticked, but once we figured out that this was mostly an administrative exercise, it was less of an issue. As initially drawn, we would have had greater than a 15 foot ceiling at the peak in the extension. That was never our intention because it would make things like changing a light bulbs in the recessed fixtures a major event. Lowering the peak a couple of feet makes things much more reasonable.