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April 24, 2007

Construction Daily

Marathon day today. Got an early start and headed into Tops of the Town shop to work through the top plans with Douglas, the carpenter who will be creating the Corian countertop. Given the complexity of the curve (even with the template) we felt it was best to talk it through. It was cool visiting the shop, as I hadn't been there in years. That is where I used to work during Christmas and summer vacations, and where I learned much of my carpentry. Still have some of our old pictures and posters on the wall - kind of a "museum" although I don't think the Smithsonian has anything to worry about...

Headed back to the house and got to work on the newel posts. I set the remaining ones under the music loft, and set the four above the kitchen. As the day was wearing on, I realized I needed to route a bullnose edge on some of the bloodwood so our flooring installer Tom would have all the material he needed to begin laying the music loft floor tomorrow. Having him scheduled is really what is driving the installation of the newel posts, since they have to be in before the flooring so that the pieces can be properly cut around them. Another race...

Once the bullnose was routed I had to scrape and sweep the floor in the music loft and catwalk so Tom had a clean surface to work on.

Meanwhile outside the Hawes team continued work on final grading and the driveway.

Daily hours = 15
Total hours = 513

Posted by Stephen at April 24, 2007 7:46 PM