Living-room Walls, continued...

By the end of last week,  I did indeed have the living-room walls up,  and most of the major shoring in place.  The rains had no effect on the construction,  other than getting everything WET!  I did have a few areas to sump pump out,  but other than that,  once the rains stopped, I started working.   

A lot of bracing was added to the shoring,  in anticipation of the arrival of the steel joists.  We also spent time organizing our stored materials so that the cellar walls could be started.  As I continue to create spaces and use materials,  this will get easier,  but right now we still end up moving materials back and forth to keep them out of the way of what ever we are doing!

On Thursday I met with the fabricators of the structural steel posts that will be part of the support system for the floors above.  I also had a good meeting with the folks at Precise Air,  the company that will be doing our Heating and air conditioning systems.  We hammered out some important details,  then I headed back to the lot.  That afternoon,  the steel joists were delivered, and by the end of that day we had placed all of the longest joists up on the shoring.

By Friday morning we had all of the joists in place and started setting the AmDeck.  The Amdeck has worked wonderfully.  It is actually fun to place an entire floor in a few hours! I simply sit up on the shoring and one of my helpers tosses up each piece from the ground.  I set it in place, and catch the next one.  It's that easy!  

By the end of the day I was able to stand on the floor of our future Master Bedroom and look out at the sunset!  
Next week we will finish the forming and set the steel posts in place.  Then we will get the cellar walls going.  There is a fair amount of rebar to do also.  Luckily,  the weather looks good for a full week of progress!