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April 3, 2007
Construction Daily
Big day today. Conestoga was on hand to begin installing the roof trusses. I stopped by to snap a few pictures before heading back to Rentals Unlimited to re-rent the flatbed to go get the bloodwood. Re-rent you ask? Learn more about that mess...
Got out to Lumber Liquidators about 10 am and talked over the installation with the GM, Randy. He was very helpful and gave me a lot of good tips on installing the flooring, and actually recommended a guy by the name of Tom Daniels who installs a lot of floors for them. Took me a while to get the load secured, and I was making damn sure it was tight because the bill came to over $12,000 for this flooring (and I still have more ordered to pick up later!) Not something you want to scatter all over the road for sure.
Got back to the house and couldn't believe my eyes - in the four hours I was gone the Conestoga team had installed the entire roof. Unreal.
Thus began the miserable chore of unloading the flooring. The first part wasn't so bad - I had bought some red oak for the gift shop, and each box weighed about 50 pounds. Carried in about 22 boxes of that stuff then got to the hard part. Each box of bloodwood weighed in at 100 pounds. The first box wasn't so bad, but after 20 I was definitely exhausted. I decided to ask the Conestoga guys if they wanted to make a few quick bucks and help me unload. Best $100 I ever spent. Three of them helped me out and we got the truck finished up. Once that was done I had to run the truck up to Frederick and return it. After that I called it a day.
Daily hours = 10
Total hours = 372
Posted by Stephen at April 3, 2007 11:11 PM
