House Project - Page 1
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Six months after the delivery of panels for Sailor's Solace Cottages we scheduled Extreme Panels - Insulspan to deliver three semi loads of beams and panels on the last week of March.
Poor choice of timing!
Mother Nature dropped 28 inches of snow two days before the delivery date on our freshly cleared site.
But the semis were already loaded. And we cleared the site again.
The semis arrived, but were unable to make it up the hill. Panels were off loaded at the city lumber yard, then brought to the site in smaller trucks during the days that followed.
Mother Nature continued to bless us.
And the morning of April 5, 2003 the family crew began the task of house building after a night of still more Lake Superior "lake effect."
But no one offered that wisdom - out loud at least - and the fun began.
Never mind the need to keep foam canisters and construction adhesive warm, gloves dry.
Just six months earlier we kept things warm in cars that were kept running all day. Now the cottages gave us all the warmth and comfort needed.
Pure luxury!
The "construction adhesive grandson" placed a bead of sticky stuff on each side of the sill plate.
The "expanding foam grandson" squirted two long lines on the sill top.
One son lifted the first panel in place and another son watched the bubble on the level - then said "screw it."
And the rest of the crew got on their knees in the snow and drove the first of thousands of screws into the sill plate.
And so it went. Fast and smooth.
With SIPs the satisfaction of seeing your efforts mean something is quickly rewarded.
No complications.
No problems.
What a crew!
