Jaycee is back! YAY!!!!!! I like our little 'community', and I was very sorry to see her decision to close up her blog. I am glad that she reconsidered.
We worked on floor joists today. Again. Tim is very precise. My stance is "MY GOD! Does a quarter of an inch even matter?" Evidently it does. We worked on them again, and we did not get to finishing the subfloor. I try so hard to be patient. I do. But his absolute insistance on absolute precision drives me nuts. He's a machinist. I'm not. I think my biggest frustration is that I'm not doing anything. Not one thing. I'm just standing there while he agonizes over his numbers.
On the way home, I said, "Did I do better keeping my mouth shut today?"
His response: "Not really."
Poor man. Tomorrow is another day. We have two rainfree days coming. We'll either get a lot of work done, or we'll get a lot of measurements taken. I don't know. Stay tuned.
The rain has caused the new back fill to sink by a couple feet in some areas. We'll have to hand fill around the basement. Joy of joys.
If we can get the basement closed in, we bought a tarp big enough to cover the subfloor (although it claims to be weatherproof. Once the basement door is up, it will be a place where we can do some work inside out of the weather. They are calling for thunderstorms the week that I'll be away.
Ricki? Can you make it stop now?
I suppose you can go over the top with precision measuring, but to go the other way too far can end in disaster down the track. While you wait, have you thought of knitting? Anyway, it is all progress.
ReplyDeleteThank you for he welcome back, Debby. I shall have to try to find things to write about again.
ReplyDeleteI get far too impatient to be as careful as Tim with my measuring. Perhaps that's why all my sewing projects end up in the scrap bag?
Oh, I feel your pain at the a desperate need for utter precision. I'm more of a that'll do and bung it person myself, although when I'm quilt making I can be precise. I'd take a good book along and bury myself in it I think.
ReplyDeleteMeasuring is a miserable task, the worry that you have actually got it right not shown till the end.
ReplyDeleteThe pain is where you have to hold something and otherwise do nothing....but getting it accurate does pay off in the end.
ReplyDeleteI had the invite to JayCees blog..glad she is carrying on
Thank heaven I'm no longer renovating anything! PS Thanks for the heads up about JayCee.
ReplyDeleteIf you want your doors to open and your windows not to rattle then a little precision is a good thing. I wish the builder who built my house had taken a little more care!
ReplyDeleteMy husband is very much like that too. He wants everything to be perfect and I keep telling him- nothing is perfect! Working on this old house of ours which has settled and shifted in its century and decades drives him mad because nothing can line up exactly.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I do not know how your marriage can withstand working on projects together like that.
I can a friend who was a tool&die guy and worked to absolute precision. He took it hard when I was out 2” with a roofing piece.
ReplyDeleteWonder if you could listen to an audio-book or podcast(s) on your phone while you are standing around waiting for DH's perfection to be achieved. :) You can use just one earphone (so you can hear critical/necessary instructions when needed); it might help ease the tedium of nothing much to do. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteOMG!! I’ve been thinking about you and that blasted rain! I SWEAR I’ve been in touch with every possible and presumably available powers to make it stop!!🫣As for precision.. it’s the opposite here.. I’m a stickler for it, but my husband will say ‘it’s good enough!’, which drives me absolutely crazy!😅OK- right now I’m going to light a few candles and summon some stronger powers re. the weather😳.. fingers crossed!!🤞(if it does work you can flee and come visit me in Northern Norway where I am right now; my old home country!😅) xo, Ricki/Rigmor🤗
ReplyDeleteGood for Tim wanting to be precise - when our house was built 20years ago the builders got some of the measurements wrong, and our hallway has a marked difference in width between the two ends which really showed up when we tried to lay laminate flooring. It took the fitter quite a while to make it look reasonable, and we are still conscious of it ourselves.
ReplyDeleteThunderstorms will help clear the air, though. You must be getting lots of that Canadian smoke.
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing at Tim saying, "Not really." (I'm laughing WITH you, not AT you, that is. :) )
Oh goodness! I will have to back up and read more of your blog, but my husband and I are the exact opposite. I am the one who wants it perfect, and he, as a former bricklayer, always figures he can take it out in the joints! However...my first husband and I built this house, not knowing at all what we were doing. So many things are out of square it's not funny, but 47 years later it's still standing.
ReplyDeleteThe house is square. The joists were the debate. He agonized over those joists. For three days. Everything stopped while he measured and tapped. Then the next day he did it all again. On the third day, he measured yet again and nailed them. Me? Measure them. Nail them right away and move on already!
ReplyDeleteOh...and PS...today I threw rocks and shoveled
ReplyDeleteI'd be throwing rocks and shoveling, too. Not a damn thing to be done to move the project along until the joists are set.
DeleteWelcome back, Jaycee! Hope the rain stays away long enough so you and Tim can as much work done as possible. And hopefully there are not as many measurements.
ReplyDeleteOf course a quarter of an inch matters, floors need to be absolutely level.
ReplyDeleteI agree with that. We are talking about a need to measure and remeasure over the course of 3 days. We are talking about spacing the joists, not height.
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