Grunt Work

With the professionals having arrived in the afternoon on Thursday, we got to work right away tearing down the old deck off the back of the house in preparation for the real work of construction. That, and the removal of a compost pile right in the middle of our work area was all we got accomplished Thursday afternoon and evening.

Yesterday (Friday the 3rd), was spent digging 4' holes (2' wide) for the concrete footings and forms, pouring the concrete and then getting the lumber prepared for assembly. The only major setback was spending a long time getting the stringers all laid out and cut only to find the treated lumber we had delivered was inadequate. It started cracking and pieces actually started falling off with little or no provocation. So that set us back a couple hours having to go get new stringers and then re-cut them.

But we got some assembly done yesterday towards the end of the day. I unfortunately do not have pictures at this time of what the final product of all our labour was. That will come later today or tomorrow. But what I do have is a few images from the construction process thus far. My father-in-law and brother-in-law are here to help and have been such a blessing. It's nice having people who know what they're doing telling me what to do. I'll just provide the labour.

Now if I can only grip that hammer today...