The Wandering Monk returned yesterday. He (very little me this time, except for doing usual clienty things, both useful and annoying) made enormous progress.<\/p>\n
The progress was even more remarkable because it involved installing yet another new foundation beam. <\/p>\n
The monk was tearing off old skirting and general surface rot when I went off to run some errands and meet a friend. When I returned an hour or so later, he’d already jacked up the house, slipped a beam and supports in place, lowered the house again, and started plotting out a deck. <\/p>\n
Amazing. He happily learned a lot from last year’s dreadful foundation project.<\/p>\n
Of course, this time there was an actual intact floor structure. Very, very little rot for a change. That helped. Also … erm, the drunks who built Ye Olde Wreck sort of forgot to put a beam in there originally. Which was bad. But also good because The Monk didn’t have to saw, pry, and chip an existing giant slab of lumber out. <\/p>\n
The gods of construction were with us yesterday.<\/p>\n
Today it’s supposed to rain. But in hopes of having a finished deck<\/em> before the weekend, I bribed The Monk into returning and I’ll be out there minioning with him all day or as long as we manage to last before getting washed away.<\/p>\n I won’t have pix until we’ve made additional progress. In the meantime, have some more singing Canadians. This time it’s The Arrogant Worms<\/a> performing “History is Made by Stupid People.”<\/p>\n