There were five separate trades at the store today: there were plumbers plumbing, sheetrockers mudding, electricians wiring, carpenters carpentering, and glass door installers putting in doors. For Bob, it was like juggling cats.
The sheetrockers are nearly through mudding,
and the job has gone without a hitch for them.
Is mudding the only job where people routinely wear stilts?
A man on stilts is both masterful and vulnerable. Agile. Well-balanced. The sheetrockers were finished by noon.
The plumbers were not. Ed literally found the main to the building which wasn’t the “main” that had been used for the last fifty years. He also took out a tank that had been walled in, another little surprise.
Ed was raised in the far West.
When he showed me where the tank came from, he said:
That’d be what you call dead space, Ma’am.
Mike got the soffit ready for tongue and groove cedar.
This is the frame for the front door. It fits except for the upper left corner,
so Paul takes a swipe with a saw, a chisel and a planer,
and when Bob helps ease it in, it goes like butter.
An unbelievable amount of activity and such a good team you seem to have. The job is rushing right along and the building’s looking fresh and solid.
This is one amazing project you’ve taken on!
mum-bear