Thursday, July 14, 2005

Day 98 - and so the wire mesh finally arrives

Post recovered by Kevin! Many thanks, Kevin!!

We were 6 or 7 sheets short of the wire mesh. This meant the crew could not finish with the Wirsbo tubing and prepping for pouring the floor (which was anticipated to happen on Wednesday). The supplier was short by 3 or 4 sheets of wire mesh when the rest was delivered, unfortunately this delayed the completion of prepping the floor for the concrete pour. As a result, the pour will be delayed until Monday. (We were originally short 3-4 sheets of mesh, but the driver who delivered them wrecked 3 sheets when he dropped off the original order, so we were short a total of 6 or 7.)

We had a tremendous lightning storm yesterday, unfortunately for this guy who was struck by lightning. (He's in critical condition.) Charles was on the floor deck when there was distant thunder and he felt the hair raising on his arms, so he got off there quickly (very wise move!). Since our house will be the tallest thing around (until a neighbour builds a 2-story house), I talked with Charles about getting a lightning rod or something like that. This isn't in the budget, but we are thinking this is something we really need to do. A few thousand...

Received the "customer service contract" from Hydro One. This is to open an account and connect the house to the hydro grid. I have to sign the contract and return with payment before they will do anything.

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