It was a cool, beautiful morning in Sullivan, IL. For this Floridian, it called for a light jacket to start the day…lol. As usual, we were blessed to have a church pastor kick off our day with a devotional prayer. Bob then handed out our tasks lists. Both the floor crew and the wall crew had pretty high goals for the day. The goal for the floor crew was to have the subfloor completely decked and ready for walls. The goal for the wall team was to complete all of the interior walls and get them loaded for transport as they were being built at an off-site location.
The teams got right to work, since much of the work was a continuation from yesterday. Joe and I went to work on installing bridging at the mid-section of the 16 foot spans, being very careful to assure the trusses were straight and square. We managed to stay slightly ahead of the team installing the subfloor decking.
At the last row, we added some additional supports to assure everything was kept square.
After we finished that task, we jumped in to help the subfloor decking team. Our job was to apply subflooring glue to the joists, so that the decking had an adhesive bond, in addition to the nails. We were able to finish about half of the decking before lunch. For lunch, we were blessed to have homemade beef stew at a local church. In addition to that amazing food, a local bank donated a catered BBQ lunch (which we saved for dinner!)
This process continued until we had the entire subflooring installed on the ‘dance floor’ deck….whoo hoo 🙂
While the floor crew was making progress on the subflooring, the wall crew was busy assembling the interior walls. Their team was so efficient, they had all of the walls assembled and loaded before lunch! The roof trusses also arrived today, so we’re ready to put up some walls tomorrow!!
After a long day, some folks gathered under the pavilion for a happy hour. We then warmed up some amazing BBQ from the left overs in the church refrigerator. God is Good!
It’s truly amazing how quickly things go. I guess you are all pros at this by now!
Incredible there really is not much more to be said. The visible results are very very impressive. It’s square, it’s flat and it’s level. That’s more than can be said for many other buildings. It’s all very professional. The team can be justified in their pride of accomplishment. The progress is outstanding
WOW
you guys rock and it’s amazing to see the results of hard work with love and so much dedication.
So proud of you and you should be too.
Can’t wait to see the final product and see you guys back to give us more details and share with us this amazing project
God bless
Awesome!!! Can not believe how much you have accomplished already!!!!!
Sounds like the weather was nice today as well.
Hope you get some rest for your next big day!!