Day 152 - Building the garage walls

Today is September 6th, 2005. It is day 152 of the building project. There are 100 days to go to the planned building completion (Dec 15th, 2005), and 131 days before the occupancy permit is planned.

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The truck from Canam-Hambro comes to load up the borrowed roll bars. It's good to get those out of these, as that is another item checked off the to-do list, and cleans up the site too.

The guy in the white shirt is the salesman from Canam-Hambro, he drove in from Montreal in the Neon to help with the loading.

As you can see, it is another beautiful day -- we had an above normal high temperature of about 27C, the humidex was 30C, but it was a gorgeous day with a light breeze. Here is a collage of some action shots of the crew hard at work.

Clockwise from top left: Dave playing Hercules, Dave checking in with Charles, Chris cutting a nice straight line which does not include any digits (haha), and Patrick taking a 10 second break so I can get his photo, and reminiscing about his birthday party last weekend

This photo was taken after the crew packed up for the day. The doors bucks for two of the garage doors are in place. The garage wall is going up quickly, with the openings for the windows ready to receive the window bucks, once the walls get high enough. The crew is going through hundreds of feet of strapping, which is used to hold the bucks in place, hold the courses of blocks together around corners, vertically, etc. The strapping will be removed after the concrete is poured.