anyway, today i mostly worked with lauren & josh to finish up the hardiplank. there was just one wall remaining, in the little alcove/corner thing behind the atrium, where megan & i waterproofed wayyyyyyyy back in april. and became clear that our waterproofing skills are stellar, because the whole area was filled with 3-4 inches of water, plus a whole bunch of trash. so the first order of business was to remove said water. so we fetched our dear friend, The Pump. he didn't get all the water out, so we got the shop vac to suck the rest out. and i learned that shop vacs can indeed suck up water, as well as mudish substances. who knew. then we got started on installing the hardiplank, which involved a lot of leveling, a jig to keep the pieces even, my arms hurting from holding the pieces straight, and a crazy sawing contraption. there's this strange attatchment that goes on the end of a drill that chomps through the hardiplank. i'm not sure how it goes from spinning to cutting, but it's cool. so we got the majority of this wall finished by lunch, and finished it up afterwards. then we caulked the holes from our wall and yesterdays wall, and that was about it for today!
we have also begun picking out colors for the interior! robert showed us the 'techtonic' color scheme, which is basically white walls in the majority of the building, with certain walls of accent colors. denise picked out some REALLY nice colors that i loved, but they got vetoed by robert :( basically, we have to keep in the same sort of color scheme as the exterior, which is blue-ish gray. and there's a limeish green that he really likes too. so there's certain areas of color in the public spaces that need to be decided on, and i guess we're going to pick out the accent colors for the bedrooms in teams of 2 or something. so we can each have our own color! it's exciting :)
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