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May 4, 2007

Construction Daily

Today Trevor did some additional machine work to help out with grading and drainage. He cut in a small creek to allow the runoff from a Sagle Road culvert to drain directly into our pond rather than flooding the field. Other news outside, the landscape crew finished the seed spray application.

Inside Vernon and Tim finished the last of the railings. Those two are awesome - the railings are perfect and they did a great job of figuring out some very difficult angle cuts and designing a great solution for the main floor staircase.

Tom and Lance finished up the last of the catwalk bloodwood. They'll be back in a few weeks to tackle the tasting room floor.

Darren installed the rest of the range hood, and tackled several other punch list tasks. I was busy running from project to project answering questions between installing the shower doors, painting trim, and installing the A/V shelf in the pantry.

The afternoon ended on a high note, as the Tops of the Town crew showed up to install the countertop. Doug and two buddies began gluing the pieces together and securing the top to the cabinets. Such a huge top is not a trivial installation! Took them about six hours to get it done, and then we all enjoyed a few beers together, just to make sure the tops worked properly. :o)

We cleared a major hurdle as well today - we got our zoning permit on the first try! Now one thing left to do - get the occupancy permit next week.

Daily hours = 10
Total hours = 577

Enjoy the pics

Posted by Stephen at May 4, 2007 11:26 AM