day fifty.

today we met on site at 8am. it was wayyyyy too early. anna and i worked to help robert figure out the roof situation above the entrance/common area. because of the design of the area, each rafter needs to be sloped a bit differently or something in order for it to work properly. i don't really know how to explain it. but anyway, anna and i used the transit to measure the height of the wall at each of the four corners, to determine if anything needed to be shimmed or adjusted. we found out that the beam wasn't quite level, so we took out some of the shims that they put in earlier, which fixed that problem. next, we had to cut some 2x6's in order to build the top of the beam up 4.5", so that the I-joists sit at the right level. we measured and cut all the pieces we needed, but there were no more ladders tall enough so that we could reach up there, and the boys were using both the walk boards up in the atrium. so robert had us build some walk boards that we could put between 2 ladders. we spent probably and hour or so doing that, then we were able to start putting the 2x6's up on the beam. we only got a few up there though, because 1:00 rolled around and it was time to go! it was lovely to do some carpentry work today though, because anna and i have been digging dirt for the past week :/

the beam.