SPOON: a WALL
Oct. 11th, 2022 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellan_the_tabby
[ Three walls, complete with plywood, surround a similarly-plywooded floor; the fourth wall, the one facing the camera, has been framed out, with space left for two windows. ]
Progress! Like actually getting somewhere! I’m getting faster at framing, this took about three hours all told.
I wanted to get right to the plywood but for a variety of reasons we needed to get Frank mobile again, so me & Jasper unloaded it all & shoved it through the (very convenient) window hole, thence to stack it INSIDE.
[ That’s a big pile of insulation all right. It’s all stacked in a corner of my house, taking up a whole bunch of it. ]
I got the van lined up RIGHT next to my south wall, ready to be scaffolding. Good thing, because it’s gonna rain all this week & I woulda got SO stuck. Still took a whole lot of back & forth, NOT helped by the part where Tyrava was too close & also at exactly the wrong angle.
[ My van’s been pulled up riiiiiight next to my cabin’s back wall. The ground shows evidence of repeated bath-and-forthing. None of the dents are new, though. ]
I. Might possibly have bumped into Tyrava once or twice. Maybe eight times. No damage, though, & only minimal mess!
[ There’s a scattering of stuff on the floor that isn’t supposed to be there, including a lamp (miraculously unbroken), a puffy black jacket, and Jasper’s laptop, which is military-grade for a reason. ]
Back to building stuff! Plywood’s in place, with the window holes neatly cut out!
[ The east wall of my house, which now has plywood! There are two cutout spaces for windows, one tall, one shorter. A circular saw sits in the tall window frame. ]
But wait, what’s that in the window? Enhance. Enhance …
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, is just visible through the window. He’s hunkered, eyes gently closed, with a pleased look on his face. ]
I got boards cut out for the window frames, too! Though they gotta dry before I can sand em, it’s been a BIT wet.
[ A low pile of cross-stacked pallet wood sits atop a cardboard box, with the wet bits places so with luck they’ll dry easily. ]
Next up, house wrap!
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Date: 2022-10-11 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-10-12 12:56 am (UTC)Impressive work! You're definitely speedrunning becoming a home builder!
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Date: 2022-10-12 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-12 01:02 am (UTC)It's the starter house... once you level up, you earn points for better tools and skills allowing you to build bigger and better houses.
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Date: 2022-10-12 01:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-12 01:19 am (UTC)Ok, can I just say; SO Much Tool Envy!
That's one of the things I don't have yet, and want. My knock-off brand sawzall is pretty good, but there's things it can't do. (like cut a straight line easily!) NvM, next year maybe.
Track saws are wonderful things as well.. very handy for cutting big sheets of stuff.
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Date: 2022-10-12 01:31 am (UTC)& I hadn't heard of track saws before. I. NEED. ONE. Milwaukee's got one, just gotta save up a bit ... okay, probably a LOT ...
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Date: 2022-10-12 01:27 pm (UTC)(This is all amazing, truly)
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Date: 2022-10-12 03:19 pm (UTC)(thaaaank)
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Date: 2022-10-12 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-12 03:18 pm (UTC)