...I was happy to see Aaron had prepared a level playing field for the masons.
Block arrived and so did the crew from Rice Masonry.
James gets the fun work: mixing mortar and cutting unwanted parts from blocks.
Chris is the crew chief, here checking a row for level.
Joe also lays up block, and here checks for plumb.
By the end of the first day, Cloud House has risen into the 3rd dimension.
At four feet high, there was pause for the inspector to approve the re-bar and hold-downs, and then concrete grout was delivered by C.W....
...pumped and poured by Doug,...
...and vibrated by Chris.
When wet from washing, the ground face block's aggregates are plainly visible.
All cleaned up from the grout pour, the second lift got underway.
Excess re-bar is cut, but the shiny hold-down rods reach up for the first floor shear walls.
By the end of Friday the 19th, the CMU walls were well on their way to being erected.
On the home-sweet-home front,
the trailer we found arrived...
delivered by the seller, Sandy and her daughter, Liz.
And I had my first visitors: Steve and Sarah from Cambridge, MA!
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