{"id":472,"date":"2011-11-08T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2011-11-21T13:36:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:36:31","slug":"porch-renovation-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/08\/porch-renovation-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Porch Renovation 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

**5<\/p>\n

On Saturday at 8:15 AM, the mason backed is little mortar mixer into our turn-around and left, saying he\u2019d be back at 10:00.\u00a0 And he did, along with one helper.\u00a0 They\u2019d hoped to get the entire block foundation established that day; however, a second helper didn\u2019t show up and they were still working at 7:00 PM.\u00a0 We turned on the pool flood lights and aimed an indoor spot light out the glass door, but, they didn\u2019t give much light, so the workers left with a promise to be back the next morning.\u00a0 Sunday?\u00a0 Right!<\/p>\n

The mason and one helper showed up Sunday morning before Dave and I left for Church.\u00a0 When we returned, they were gone and the foundation was complete.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d picked up John and Tyler after church, lunched at the Yellow Mills Restaurant, and brought them home to see the progress.\u00a0 The boys were more impressed with the amount of mud and the Styrofoam cup of coffee one of the workers had left in the bottom of the deep trench.<\/p>\n

Around 4:00 PM, the architect phoned to be sure the mason had covered the blocks to allay freezing or rain from getting inside the blocks.\u00a0 They had not covered the blocks the night before, nor this morning.\u00a0 Dave checked for any cracking in the mortar and covered the blocks with a\u00a0 tarp the mason had left.\u00a0 All was well.<\/p>\n

Apparently, all was well on Monday and Tuesday, also, as no workers came.\u00a0 The weather was crisp and cool, but sunny and dry\u00a0 with a high of 62-degrees.<\/p>\n

Tuesday evening, we went back to Crown Electric in Webster to check out their powder room vanities, sinks, toilets, and lighting.\u00a0 Last week, we\u2019d ordered the tile and wood layment flooring from Rochester Linoleum.\u00a0 The builder only has to call them a week ahead of when he needs the materials and they\u2019ll be delivered.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday at 7:25 AM, I heard what turned out to be a compressor.\u00a0 They sprayed a silver coat on the blocks where the mason had spread a layer of mortar.\u00a0 Exploratory\u00a0\u00a0 holes were made with a hand shovel to pin-point the location of the sewer pipe that exits our home\u00a0 from under the dining room.\u00a0 They anticipate tying into that main pipe .\u00a0 Later, in the afternoon, Peyton and I\u00a0 sat outside enjoying the Indian Summer weather.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the builder stopped in to let me know he\u2019d be using a\u00a0 gun to attach rigid insulation to the cement block foundation.\u00a0 The gun shoots nails into cement.<\/p>\n

Late Friday afternoon, the builder phoned to ask if he could bring the plumbers\u00a0\u00a0 (Tom and Jeremy) in to show them the basement and where the big sewer pipe is.\u00a0 Apparently, they have decided to run the pipe from the new powder room north along the porch and patio, bend around the corner and go east into the basement to attach it with a y-joint.\u00a0 They want to run the water through \u201cblack pipe\u201d across the porch pad into the powder room, rather than saw a\u00a0 trrench line for copper piping.\u00a0 The builder is going to check with the Town Building Inspector to be sure that is okay with him.<\/p>\n

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Inspector John<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

**5 On Saturday at 8:15 AM, the mason backed is little mortar mixer into our turn-around and left, saying he\u2019d be back at 10:00.\u00a0 And he did, along with one helper.\u00a0 They\u2019d hoped to get the entire block foundation established that day; however, a second helper didn\u2019t show up and they were still working at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}