Significant progress again to report at the K35 semi-detached, currently receiving the vast proportion of my attention and energy. A productive week with good weather again for the outside work, and we also had the long awaited precast window wells installed. This was interesting because I ordered the largest size they make, it requires quite a good sized hold to be dug to contain them.

A lot of juggling of equipment, schedules and materials was done to get the precast in on a comparatively tiny site with lots of other work ongoing. The HVAC crew started and basically finished the first unit, the plumber completed the drainage plumbing, and the framers were back to work on the second basement and lots of back framing work. The stairs arrived for one of the units, and install was well underway this evening. With 3-4 crews involved on one site over the week, much logistics and communication is done to keep everyone happy, with space to work, and with plenty of material.

As the builder, my job at this hectic stage has been reduced to the cleaner of mud off the street, and bringer of materials when shortfalls are identified, with the sporadic rain we’ve had, the mud has been awful, and with so much progress occurring, shortages of material is regular. Aggravating daily hardware store runs are now proving necessary as unexpected materials are needed. Once again, attentive site management (time consuming and inefficient) pushes everyone else forward, leaves no crew with a reason not to work (even if they may be wanting a reason), and greatly increases the pace that the crews can work toward stage completion.