This is a lonely place
Jul. 9th, 2018 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hlmaueraI see many of my LJ friends have journals here but only one or two have allowed me access or have accessed mine so I don't see them any more. It's sad.
The house saga is a disappointing grind. I took Thursday and Friday after the fourth of July holiday to try to get the deck replaced.
Wednesday we finished tearing out everything and discovered what a slapdash job the builder had done. There was a lot of shoring up to do. The stringers were 30 or more inches apart and they have to be 15 and there was no cement around some of the posts and not enough posts to support the deck. So Thursday we spent the morning figuring out what we needed to do and what materials we needed to do it. Then we went and purchased those supplies, brought most of them home and unloaded them. That was the whole day.
Friday I went to Mom and Dad's where we set up the saw, cut the Trex boards from their last project into appropriate lengths and loaded half into the trailer. Mom and Dad had a funeral to attend in the middle of the day so we lost about 4 hours there. I kept working; I finished cutting the boards with the help of Chris Ballow who showed up to lend a hand. I took him to lunch and then we loaded a few boards into the car and headed to my house to unload them. I spent some time leveling the concrete pads we'd gotten to support the posts. Mom and Dad met me at the house with the trailer full of the Trex, which we unloaded. We then went back to get the rest of the Trex and unloaded it at my place, and thus ended the third day.
Friday we started cutting posts and placing them on squares of tar paper on the cement pads. We did some digging to put a pad under and existing post and to level out some of the ones I hadn't yet gotten to. There were seven new posts in all and one that given a new pad. Then we started reinforcing some of the boards that had been cut out around a stump that has since rotted away leaving collapsing holes and soft soft soil. We found a sink cleanout that had been previously unavailable and sorted out a way to access it. Thus ended the fourth long day. We started at 8:30am and ended between 6 and 8 pm each night. It was long hard work. But if you look at the pictures, you'd be hard pressed to see any of it at all. The picture from Wednesday looks about the same as the one from Saturday. It's so frustrating and discouraging. Now I'm going to have to spend every spare moment between now and whenever I get it done working on it alone.
The sawzall really jammed up my arms and I've got a lot of muscle and nerve pain in my right hand in particular but my left hand also, to some extent. Capsasum with lidocaine and a thumb brace to the rescue. Doing my hair is torture right now. I wake up during the night needing more pain relief and I can only lay on my back- no side sleeping. I'm actually really glad to be back at work today but I'll have to work on it again tonight when I get home.
The house saga is a disappointing grind. I took Thursday and Friday after the fourth of July holiday to try to get the deck replaced.
Wednesday we finished tearing out everything and discovered what a slapdash job the builder had done. There was a lot of shoring up to do. The stringers were 30 or more inches apart and they have to be 15 and there was no cement around some of the posts and not enough posts to support the deck. So Thursday we spent the morning figuring out what we needed to do and what materials we needed to do it. Then we went and purchased those supplies, brought most of them home and unloaded them. That was the whole day.
Friday I went to Mom and Dad's where we set up the saw, cut the Trex boards from their last project into appropriate lengths and loaded half into the trailer. Mom and Dad had a funeral to attend in the middle of the day so we lost about 4 hours there. I kept working; I finished cutting the boards with the help of Chris Ballow who showed up to lend a hand. I took him to lunch and then we loaded a few boards into the car and headed to my house to unload them. I spent some time leveling the concrete pads we'd gotten to support the posts. Mom and Dad met me at the house with the trailer full of the Trex, which we unloaded. We then went back to get the rest of the Trex and unloaded it at my place, and thus ended the third day.
Friday we started cutting posts and placing them on squares of tar paper on the cement pads. We did some digging to put a pad under and existing post and to level out some of the ones I hadn't yet gotten to. There were seven new posts in all and one that given a new pad. Then we started reinforcing some of the boards that had been cut out around a stump that has since rotted away leaving collapsing holes and soft soft soil. We found a sink cleanout that had been previously unavailable and sorted out a way to access it. Thus ended the fourth long day. We started at 8:30am and ended between 6 and 8 pm each night. It was long hard work. But if you look at the pictures, you'd be hard pressed to see any of it at all. The picture from Wednesday looks about the same as the one from Saturday. It's so frustrating and discouraging. Now I'm going to have to spend every spare moment between now and whenever I get it done working on it alone.
The sawzall really jammed up my arms and I've got a lot of muscle and nerve pain in my right hand in particular but my left hand also, to some extent. Capsasum with lidocaine and a thumb brace to the rescue. Doing my hair is torture right now. I wake up during the night needing more pain relief and I can only lay on my back- no side sleeping. I'm actually really glad to be back at work today but I'll have to work on it again tonight when I get home.
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Date: 2018-07-10 04:57 pm (UTC)Congrats on your hard labors on the porch! Sounds like a trip to Onsen hot tub might do you good.