Making the grade

We just spent the last 3-4 days working on grading our lumber. This process consists of looking at each face of the structural lumber, determining if it is good enough that you'd like to see it in your house every day, seeing which side the crown of the wood is on and how big of a crown it is, as well as measuring the width of the lumber, since not all lumber is cut evenly. Then you mark all of this information on an end that won't be seen, lather, rinse and repeat.


One should re-stack the lumber during this process in order to provide plenty of airflow so that mold doesn't grow and the lumber can continue to dry. We found lots of fun with knots, some few dead ants in a pile we never took apart, and ant holes in a pile of lumber that we didn't have ants in. The curious thing is that the board with holes were distributed fairly evenly. Let it suffice to say that we have taken to disposing of any board with an ant hole in it.

Tomorrow or Tuesday they should be pouring the floor. Also, we had noticed a deficiency of lag bolts on the north wall. When we checked, there were only two bolts drawn on our plan (each a foot or so from the corner) , so it was followed. Our excavator has agreed to drill the holes and put in new bolts. We marked those today on the wall so he knows where to drill. Once the floor is poured and the sill bolts are in, we can start making some visible progress.