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Day 421 - Deck Stairs
Tuesday , July 18 -- Kelli lucked out today - her jury duty was cancelled. So she was able to spend the day on-site.
We now have steps up to the deck. These stairs will be the shortest number of steps to the house's first floor. Dave and Brad work on the stairs...
Dave cut some of the deck boards. We are still trying to determine the best strategy for cutting these boards since a 20-foot board expands and contracts at least 3/16" within 20 minutes of being in the full hot sun and then moving it into the shade...
Stone work continues...
Our paint contractor drove up to review the job. Donn had some wonderful ideas about the how to make the front door standout and how to handle the front eyebrow columns. His idea is to paint the front door a base coat of copper, top with a bronze coat, and then burnish the edges to create a antiqued copper metal look. The door will match the door handset and the metal in the light fixtures. Keeping with the metal look, he suggested using plain column "covers" and faux painting them to look like weathered steel.
Dave, Brad, and Ken connected the house's future gutters' drain pipes to the main french drain that runs around the hangar base. They also installed a conduit between the house and the propane tank in case we need to give the generator its own propane line...
Our HVAC sub was a no-show today, so the air conditioners are not connected.
I spent time cleaning up the front yard. One task was to chip out the stone grout and mortar that fell around the base of the walls. Instead of "bucketing" the chunks to the rock pile, Ken showed me how to operate the BobCat and move the rubble by horsepower. Cool... :-)
It was another hot day, about 100-102. I thought that the temperature felt cooler than yesterday. The nice breeze helped. Everyone is getting used to the heat so working outside was no problem.