Day 41 - first signs of the "light well"

The light well made it's first appearance today, looks awesome so far. There were of course some issues that came up when Paul went to frame it, most notably that the southern of edge of it was designed, as it turns out, to sit right where the plumbing stack resides. Obviously we aren't moving the stack so we had to slide one end of the well a few inches. The new position has it resting on top of the old wood stove chimney in the shared wall. That chimney is of course hollow, as chimneys tend to be, so we are going to have to fill it in with concrete to get the load bearing capabilities that we require. There are only a couple feet to fill though so the cost with be 'minimal'.

Paul cutting the exterior wall for make room for the light well beam to rest

Light well frame from the kitchen

Light well frame from the second floor

Plumbing inspection is set for tomorrow in the basement, assuming that passes, the basement floor will be poured Thursday and the first crew will be 'done'.

Paul tells me that he expects that he will done by the end of next week.

Fast!