Greetings all of you Report to the Architect addicts
Sorry to have not had a report last week....the weekly marathon construction burnout syndrome leads to stupid mistakes like forgetting the camera. A week ago we were graced by a visit by Daina asnd Eric Newman, and Eric proved himself a capable scaffolding and ladder monkey on Saturday and we got plywood on all the overhang corner brackets as well as on the eyebrow roofs over the East windows. While the high scaffolding was in place on that wall we started the trim on the eyebrows and the main roof rakes.
This weekend we carried on with the trim, finishing the high rakes, and then breaking the scaffolding and building a new scaffol;ding placement that allowed us to work the lower eyebrow roof. Our factory bolt through red scaffolding brackets only extend three feet which is the same as the projection of that roof, so ....build we must for a better Vermont. It is worth noting that when trusting site built scaffolding support, it helps insure longevity of life to make sure all the joints are well nailed before climbing out to load the system........
It seems like little progress gets made at this stage of the project, but a great deal of energy goes into all the scafolding placements. This past weeekend we worked off of four different installation sites. The trim on the roofs where it intersects with neighboring roofs just fell where it did....I didnt calculate roof placement with trim alignment in mind , and the resulting stagger seems to have an okay rhythm.
Our accomplishments for the past threeday weekend were the East wall trim, plywood on the kitchen roof ( We did the adhesive and smoo and ply scrap blocking detail with the screws projecting into the insulation space rather than into the roof ) We took a break on saturday and drove to Nork City in torrential rain to celebrate our friends Ken Nadle's 60th on a dry rooftop near Columbia Univ,then home again by 1:00 a.m. Sunday we set the scaffolding to start sheathing the bumpout and west wall. Torrential rain (for which we had not done a tarp adjustment) cut us short and we packed out, made a ferry reservation, rather than drive through the city again, had a hot meal in the student digs ( rare, that event) and enjoyed an alternatate drive down rt 112 in Mass.
Hope all of you are well...love BSB
Posted by Bennett
at 3:56 PM EST
