Finishing work really begins when priming the freshly sanded walls is complete. I’ve published a few random time to build posts on Instagram. Basically I’ve reached this milestone after 87 days passed since the April 1 footing pour. The pace of work has been good due to some average spring weather and just overall trade availability. Sticking to the schedule requires the builder to be always a couple steps ahead, and often you can run multiple crews on the same site at the same time. I’d estimate the job is 50% complete now and most of the remaining work is inside so weather becomes a non factor.
a lot of the pace of work is also attributable to management effort and experience. On this job the potent blend of me having a lot of time to lavish on the build and a growing familiarity with the crews, how they work, what they need for success has come together into a smooth running productivity machine. The neighbours may not be impressed with the noise and disruption but we stick to the work hours allowed by the city bylaw. My response to the neighbours is often to ask them if they’d rather be next to a site where we get the noisy and dirty stuff done in 3 months or should we stretch it out over 6 months or more. With inside work all we have scheduled for the next month I think the neighbours will get a reprieve from the noise and pretty soon we will be totally done.