Kathy,

lol. I've actually helpped Vernon lay the sil on the foundation, and the
sil sealer, as well. Yes, gone are the days of the hammer, and they usually
use air naillers, or the ones with something in them like you said. It's so
much fun to watch the house come up and I love it.

We would have been better off, had we bought a few lots and built a new
house. We've put more money into this house than we should have, but it's
too late to back up now. It's really looking nice and I'll write about it
some time.

I'm so happy for you! Keep the reports coming! We'll keep the prayers coming!

Love,
Pat Ferguson



At 04:18 AM 8/4/04, you wrote:
>Well Guys, who else would have that as a subject line.
>
>Well, the house is finally beginning to happen.  The crew has been
>arriving faithfully at 6:00 am every morning this week.  Yesterday they
>discovered that the crew that laid the foundation read the blueprint
>wrong and gave us too much concrete so the morning was spent  with a gas
>powered saw to remove two 2 by 4 foot sections of the foundation to put
>us back on track.  Man was it noisy.  It was worse than a chainsaw.
>After they removed a section, they would have to spray it clean with a
>hose and in the afternoon, they used the saw kind of like a wood plain to
>make the concrete smooth again so that the wood would fit snuggly up
>against it.  The way that they attach the wood to the concrete is
>interesting too.  They use nail guns that work with an air compressor.
>Gone are the days of the hammer, I guess.  Anyway, when they want to
>drive a nail into the concrete, they put this little cap on the nail that
>actually has something like gun powder in it and they actually shoot the
>nail through the wood and into the foundation.  Now, after two days of
>solid work, the cross beam is in place, most of the foundation is walled
>in, the floor joists are in place, but not all of them are nailed in and
>the door and window frames are obvious in the walk out part of the
>basement.  The back yard is a mess, but who cares.  It's a small price to
>pay for being, finally, under construction.
>Kathy
>
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