well, our mini-vacation ended this morning. we were back on site at 8.00 as usual. and as expected, no one showed up except for megan, josh, denise, anna, cody, lauren, and myself. the interns. and of course robert. mostly everyone else clearly has no interest in seeing the project get finished, and were just here this summer for the credit. [well, except for doug, who has been working in the shop with adrian, and jayson, who will be there tomorrow.] oh well. we'll be the only ones who can have the WHOLE project in our portfolios, from start to finish :)
anyway, today was HOT. i helped cody & anna finish waterproofing the green roof. lately, it has been seriously leaking, because the waterproofing that we put on wayyyy back in april is no longer working. apparently, if you leave it exposed during the summer for extended periods of time, it loses it's effectiveness. so on friday, anna & cody put down a few layers of the EXTREMELY disgusting tar stuff and some sort of strange feltish material to make everything super waterproofed. then today, we had to go over the edges again with some foilskin, a foil-like substance with tar on the back to make it stick. then we havd to cover those edges with some super sticky blue tape. so now there seems to be an extreme amount of waterproofing action going on, and nothing will get through. hopefully.
that's what we did until about 3.00 today, when i had to leave. fortunately, i missed the next step: more tar. so hopefully they got the rest of it done today! also, robert is sending cody & anna to the shop next week, so they have to finish the whole roof by the end of friday. there are still a few more trim pieces that need to be ordered, so i went around with them and helped them measure, so that they can be delivered tommorrow :)
OH and we have drywall! and the stucco is finished! over the past 4 days, our drywall & stucco friends have continued working! the stucco is finished, and the color & texture looks really cool. and the majority of the drywall is finished also! so there are real life rooms. it's crazy. it REALLY looks like a house. and it kind of hit me today that we ACTUALLY built this thing. i still can't get over it.
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