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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