17 Mar 08 More helpers

Well the roofing is all done now and progress seems to slow down as we fill in the bits and pieces that really make a house work. One of those things is of course the plumbing which is all roughed in now and the heating ducts that are almost finished. The processing of putting in those pieces involves cutting out a lot of the framing that was just put in. The great challenge of the general contractor is to keep the plumbers and tinsmiths from cutting out significant structural members and the like. As this process goes on there are a few new holes to cut so we once again get to use the preferred tool of demolition the reciprocating saw (or in the vernacular... the sawzall). We even managed to recruit some new helpers in this phase.

Occasionally a hole gets cut where it ought not to be and then a patch gets put in but mostly we are mainly cutting holes for pipes of one sort or another and generating a large amount of small irregularly shaped wood and sawdust...