Day 11 - The Eleventh Day

 


We're back. Today's goal is to get the deck on. I confirmed that the floor for the first floor of the house is in fact called a deck. We will later be adding a deck in front of the deck, but this deck will be a deck and not a floor, unlike the other deck. The imposter deck.



This is a lift. We have sheets of Advantech (with an 'h'), that tongue and groove stuff, and they are HEAVY. The lift uses a motor to run the sheets up to the deck for us.


This is Steve and Rich. Hi Steve and Rich! Before they laid the first row of Advantech down, they snapped a chalk like at 4ft to get the row straight. As they go, they use a caulking gun to squirt glue along every I-joist and the rim joist, where applicable. When the Advantech goes down and Rich nails it tight, the glue holds extra tight so we don't have any squeaks in our floor. Nice job, Steve and Rich!


We got to eat lunch inside today. It's dark in here!


That's a good-looking deck, right there. You'll notice with a good squint that we stripped most of the bracing off the forms and along the footing. Nate and Kevin, the excavators, are coming back to backfill around the forms and the footing, and we don't want any wood to get stuck under there and start to rot.


All cleaned up! Nate is going to have to bring some beefy equipment in here to get his backfilling done, and we don't want anything to be in his way when he does.


It's starting to look homey in here!

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