Setting more posts

The southern building code requires all corners to have two 2 by somthing with another 2 by nailed between on the inside edge, which forms a "U". I talked with both the engineers and the city inspectors about this since we are 4 stories high.
It was ok with everybody to use the southern building code standard, BUT..I didn't believe it was strong enough so I order two Doug Firs that were 10x10 and 26 feet long.


While the crane was setting the floor joist, I had him also set these posts along with everything else I could think of since we have to pay for 4 hours no matter what. So here it comes.


Each post was placed in the corner of the great room, a 32 foot high vaulted ceiling inside of doing the southern building code thingie. We do have winds up here that can get up to 70mph at times. So I asked them to design it to take winds up to 105mph.


The whole tricks if there is one is the block you have to place on the posts so they come over straight up and down and not angled. The blocks is .382 from the end...go figure. Then they loop a strap there and how easy is that.......


After shooting in about 200 nails in each post we are done, sometimes I believe they think they are paid by the nail not by the hour....hehe. This is James the hotdog of the whole outfit, part Cherokee and part just nuts.


We are still removing some crapola from the fire even after 10 weeks. This is the grinder pumps for the sewer. Since the house is below the road we have to pump the real crapola (ROTFL) back up the mountain.


All that is left is the stainless steel bottom plate, a pile of fiberglass and some dirt, this sucker cost $11,800.00. The new one will be here by the end of the month and so it goes.......


The bottom of the pump housing was about the last thing that will be removed from the fire. The good news is the actual pumps had not been installed yet and are fine, so we were only out about $3,800.00, just 4 ticks on a 10 lots so let's trade.....