Joists
Rain on Monday and other obligations on Tuesday slowed progress a bit this week. We put several tons of sand-clay fill in the crawlspace. We also installed the 2×10 floor joists, and I’m putting in the metal bridging that adds rigidity and stability to the long joists. The kitchen floor joists were notched and installed a little lower than the other floors to allow an extra thickness of plywood under the slate tile floor. The extra blocking between the first and second joists provides ample places to attach the wall, and also distributes the weight of the passive solar collection tubes that will sit by the south-facing windows.
Today (Friday), Marshall will shave high spots off the headers and joists to get everything as flat as possible, and we’ll build the porch piers (if we don’t get rain).
2 comments April 21st, 2006
