Work - Weekend 2

We had a nice Thanksgiving, our friends Jenifer and Doug and his parents Louise and Phil came over to our house. Then on Friday morning we headed up to Maine. This weekend was even colder that the last one. We didn't do any outside work on Friday, we had some errands to run. But on Saturday, I don't think it got above 20 degrees - BRRR!!

But we got a lot done. We finished the sill and box. Rick did the blocking on the gable ends of the house. We put in the difficult floor joists, the ones to frame the stairwell. The weather didn't cooperate and Jack didn't the floor of the basement poured, so we had to leave some openings so he could get the cement chute in.


I don't know much about construction, but I really like the way Tim Wood told us to install the floor joists. The boards are 2x10x16 and instead of cutting them and hanging them from the main beam, you place them on top and set them side by side.