The End is Near

The goal to enclose the house by the end of this semester seemed intangible a few weeks ago, but it is becoming more and more a reality. The roof was completed yesterday afternoon and great progress was made attaching furring strips and screening. As Katharine had written in the last blog entry, the priming for the siding was completed and transported to the site on Monday. The group at the site began attaching the siding to the house yesterday. Unfortunately, not all of the priming was completely finished this past Monday. The rest of the blocking for the windows was primed yesterday, and only a couple of windows and doors are left to be primed. The remainder of the window blocking was taken to the site today for it to be installed tomorrow.

The rest of the group was busy yesterday working on windows and door panels. The wood shop in the Art + Architecture building has been flooded with students working on final projects, and it has been very difficult for us to work with large lumber in such a crowded space. Flat area is also necessary for assembling these windows and doors, and it has been difficult finding space with only three or four tables in the shop. I am also pretty sure we have hit a record for the amount of wood dust that has accumulated in the collect system. On Monday and Wednesday, we emptied the large wood dust collector three or four times, and before working on this project, I did not even know where the dust was collected. With at least twenty full trash bags, the collected wood dust will be used for mulch on the site.