Building before we build

Today Matt was to start fastening the lath to the dining/living room ceilings. Before he could begin work however he first had to assemble the scaffolding and build a platform to safely work up near the ceiling. Because we needed to access the dining room doors to get the concrete in it was important the platform and scaffolding not block them.It tool a few hours to build the platform but it will save us many more hours as we apply the lath, plasterwork and paint later. Access for the platform is from the bridge across the rooms. That makes things real easy.

Then it was time for Matt to begin on the lath work.

-grampa dan

This room has walls!

Tonight Phoebe decided she would give me a hand as I worked on the sub-paneling for her room. I was cutting and screwing half inch plywood to the lower half of the walls. The plywood will give plenty of strength and will hold up to whatever might happen in a kid's play room. Finish paneling and trim will go over this.

Although I had all the right tools that we needed up in the room already  Phoebe insisted that we go out to the workshop to load her tool pouch up with ALL her tools. I tried to explain we didn't need screwdrivers nor open-end wrenches but she wanted them all - JUST IN CASE. As we worked I made sure we used a wide variety of them (actually needed or not) and she explained to me it was a very good thing she brought them. I had to agre of course!

One room of the house now has four walls that actully look like walls. Tomorrow, perhaps we begin work on the second.

-grampa dan

Another one off the list

Today the whole team was ready and eager to begin. Since everything was already in place the second ceiling went even faster than yesterday's effort. By noon the concrete was all troweled on, A couple hours after lunch it was all sponged and the site cleaned up. It was a relatively relaxing and laid back dy with great results. Two celings are now done and we are eager to tackle the biggest ceiling next.

Thanks to my hard working crew for another great job!

-grampa dan