Craft Room Project: Framing Done!

It is a stark comparison of what got done in slightly over half a work day today vs. what had been done in the three-ish days the other crew was here. It is kind of shocking.

We found out why we only had one guy today. It’s because the other guy just flat out didn’t show up to work. Apparently he had a buddy working at the company and he got let go. Our guy is assuming that this guy just decided to leave as well.

The really bad thing about the second guy not showing? This was our guy’s first day back after abdominal surgery and he really needed the help today. He ended up leaving after he got the framing done because he was in too much pain to start working on pulling the wires, so only managed a little over a half day’s work. I really feel bad for the guy and it was obvious he was miserable.

I can probably say part of that pain was caused when he had to do some straightening of the framework for the doorway under the large beam, something that was required because the other crew didn’t get it right. It’s fixed now, but that is some serious stress on abdominal muscles that have suffered that kind of trauma, even 3 weeks post op.

Beyond the straightening, he did the build out around the wires along the large beam.

He fixed/finished the build out for the wires on the shorter beam.

And he finished wrapping the duct work inside the new closet space. There is a chance that there is one more board that needs to be put in place, but I’ll confirm that tomorrow. That said, the framing is finished.

Tomorrow, I’ll go through the electrical layout with him, marking where all the new outlets and switches go, where the new lights go and where I’m moving the central light. He will be running all the wires, but we still have to have their electrician do any hook ups and whatever else needs to be done at the electrical box to support all of that. I’m not certain of the time frame to get that done, but I’m hoping only a couple of days.

There will be a potential lag between that getting finished and starting the drywall because the electrical has to be inspected before they can move on. I’ve been told that right now, getting an inspector out is really spotty on how soon they can show up.

I’ve got to say, it was a HUGE relief having our original guy back out here today. It was amazingly quiet, even with the sawing and banging and low volume music.

Today was progress. Mostly stress free, positive progress. Definitely the way to get this project going again.