June 1, 2007
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Record-setting day!
Today set a record for greatest number of trades or interests present at the jobsite in a single workday!
Nerio Luna and a helper showed up first, he's the drywall guy.
Marlin and Ed, from About Fire Suppression, also came early to fix a couple problems with the emergency sprinkler system.
Bob Sawyer, his assistant Karen, and I met with Moises Arredondo the cabinetry guy, taking final measurements before he gets started on cabinets throughout the house.
Bob made some progress on the downstairs fireplace enclosure (which he is building personally) before he had to get back to the office.
Ian and his Heliopower team showed up to install the racks for the PV panels on the garage roof.
Danny "Electro-Man" Castro came to bring Ian up to speed on electrical stuff, and to wire the boiler and its various pumps.
Eddie Arellano came to look over the remaining pickup carpentry, and see what tools he needed to finish prepping the Stucco-Mate for being stuccoed. He left Frank to spackle the entire house and garage. (Frank stayed till 8pm! He was the last to leave)
Corey White and four of his younger brothers came to grind off the last of the spalling from the iron handrail.
Andy Barraza came late to pressure-test the radiant floor plumbing and tidy up a few things on behalf of 180 Design & Build.
And I was there for much of the day, doing cleanup, roughing in a ventilation passage and meeting with Marlin, Bob, Moises, Ian, Danny, Eddie, and Andy in turn. Including myself, that's 22 people and ten different organizational identities in a single day!
I would post photos of each of them hard at work, except my wonderful Sony digital camera won't work anymore.
I think it's clogged with drywall dust.
