New Game Plan (Day 236 of 273)

To answer the blog comments about what the Arch. Committee can do (I can't comment directly for some reason), they can withhold or keep our $1000 application fee and reportedly fine us on a monthly basis. I'll have to investigate the penalties and see if its worth being a bad boy. Nevertheless, I shifted to a new game plan called "Make it look like a finished house". As I had mentioned, one of the holdups on the exterior shingling (other than dipping the 8000 little buggers) is that we had left out two upper story windows so the drywallers could load the rock (sheet rock, drywall, gypboard, etc) through the window openings.


Well, this morning I called Frank Feltes (Drywall and Painting) and asked him if we could order and load the rock now, rather than later. You'd think I'd rubbed the belly of a magic genie. By 10 am, Evergreen Building Products (Sequim) had a boom truck on the property and was loading 1/2" and 5/8" drywall into the Love Nest and the Man Cave (see photos). Man does that truck save some labor. Still, it took them 2 hours to unload the rock.

Talk about a dynamic test load. I figure there is about 6000 pounds of drywall sitting on those engineered joists in the living room, and 4000 pound up in the man cave. If its still standing tomorrow, I think we're good to go.So now the two remaining pentoid windows can go in and there won't be any technical reason to not finish the outside, except time. I spent 4 hours this afternoon adding the cedar trim that caps the rock. Lots of mitering and screwing from below so no fasteners show, but the 20 ft that I finished looks pretty good. 80 ft to go; looks like two days of work.