Wednesday--the fun continues

. . . beginning at 7:40 AM when the truck from Golden State beeped its way up the driveway (just was I was thinking to myself, "I'd better put some signage down at the foot of the lane").


The driver was quite deft, and I love the way the laws of inertia allowed him to bump the load off the rollers (back up the truck a couple of feet, hit the brakes hard, and drop the back half, then finish the drop). So here's 50-odd joists and about 5 ranks of redwood....


Ahh the pleasures of removing joist-hangers from the scabbed-in ledger:


But Tom will actually have secured some of those new joists, after he finishes fully securing the ledger that hadn't been well-executed by the last crew...



And for you demolition fans, yes, there'll still be some left for the weekend:

Midweek--more demo

After an untimely intrusion of Real Life (as in, J O B) on Monday I managed to snatch a two-day trip to the scene of the crime here, although it was "only" six hours of demolition / de-nailing / helping Muggs with the last beam and posts for the place where the replacement deck meets the existing one).


This is his clever method for walking up a 4 x 8 beam
almost into place before setting in the posts...


Sledgehammer therapy, free-weight workouts, repetitive stress--
Haunted House Fitness has it all.


Tomorrow is the humongous delivery (heatin' up the MasterCard!)
from Golden State Lumber, and here's what used to be the
badminton court but is now a milling station.

I'll try to take a few more pix tomorrow--will do more demo
and a couple of hours of production milling so there's material
to be placed this weekend....