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Construction and Destruction
Nov. 5th, 2024 02:30 pmLisa and I voted a couple of weeks ago. We went to Big R and bought that pallet of firewood yesterday. (I have to remember to always bring the receipt showing the SKU of that pallet, because the folks at Big R can never find it and think I'm trying to buy a package of six logs, not the pallet of 390 logs.) So here's a story of the building (and building failure) that's been happening in the West Lot adjacent to Fernley House.
( Photos Thus Far )
On Thursday afternoon, while Kayla was working at our Day Jobbe, we heard a massive racket and a bunch of screaming coming from the West Lot. Looking out the bathroom window, we saw the framework crashing to the ground, with the owner cursing at the top of his lungs and his helpers. What actually happened is hard to say, but all of the vertical beams appeared to have been in place before something caused them to fall, domino-fashion. We didn't need to call for an ambulance, though. Soon thereafter, everyone left.
( Aftermath )
After witnessing this building debacle, Lisa and I are especially happy with how the trailer shelter went up. Lisa studied the assembly instructions carefully and watched the videos supplied by the company that makes the metal-frame building. She then modified the instructions to account for the fact that we only had the two of us to build it, rather than a crew of workers. Consequently, we got the thing erected without having it fall down on top of us. Lisa was also very conservative, having purchased a building with at least the projected snow/wind loading for this area, and using significantly more concrete on the ground anchors, plus adding additional struts from the frame to the garage. We get a lot of wind here, and we don't want it carrying our trailer shelter away. Lisa is skeptical that the owner of the West Lot has taken the same level of care about his metal-frame building.
I'm just glad that it dominoed along the length of the West Lot rather than falling across the fence separating that lot from our house, as there is very little clearance between the fence and our house.
( Photos Thus Far )
On Thursday afternoon, while Kayla was working at our Day Jobbe, we heard a massive racket and a bunch of screaming coming from the West Lot. Looking out the bathroom window, we saw the framework crashing to the ground, with the owner cursing at the top of his lungs and his helpers. What actually happened is hard to say, but all of the vertical beams appeared to have been in place before something caused them to fall, domino-fashion. We didn't need to call for an ambulance, though. Soon thereafter, everyone left.
( Aftermath )
After witnessing this building debacle, Lisa and I are especially happy with how the trailer shelter went up. Lisa studied the assembly instructions carefully and watched the videos supplied by the company that makes the metal-frame building. She then modified the instructions to account for the fact that we only had the two of us to build it, rather than a crew of workers. Consequently, we got the thing erected without having it fall down on top of us. Lisa was also very conservative, having purchased a building with at least the projected snow/wind loading for this area, and using significantly more concrete on the ground anchors, plus adding additional struts from the frame to the garage. We get a lot of wind here, and we don't want it carrying our trailer shelter away. Lisa is skeptical that the owner of the West Lot has taken the same level of care about his metal-frame building.
I'm just glad that it dominoed along the length of the West Lot rather than falling across the fence separating that lot from our house, as there is very little clearance between the fence and our house.
