We've taken delivery of the garage package. This normally uneventful event is getting its own post on the blog. It was an opportunity for me to get a little exercise. The package was fairly large, so we had to drop it in the alley. This isn't really allowed (blocking alley, storing stuff in the alley), so I had to move it all onto the pad by hand.
Unfortunately, or maybe with very good reason, the delivery forklift company policy is not to drop lumber on a new slab, or maybe even on any slab. They just don't want the liability that comes with possibly damaging fresh concrete work. As is typical for the inner city, there simply is no space to store material. I would have put down some plywood and dropped the load onto that slowly, and it would have been ok. Given that I wasn't driving the forklift, I at least got my exercise in.
This is all complicated by not having a really firm delivery time. I don't have anyone that can just wait around all day for lumber. Inevitably it means I waste a half day waiting around and trying to get guys to be 'on call' to assist with the moving. The lesson here is just make sure you organize your delivery and manpower to be all at the same time. If not you are taking a chance your lumber could block access to the neighbours garage, and the neighbours at my current site are fairly 'particular' about these issues.
