Tarring the basement walls... Melvin making his few bucks the hard way.As long as the weather held and it didn't dip below freezing at night, I continued block laying for the kitchen, living room and library.
Shown below is a view down the east living room wall to the kitchen with its two eastward-facing windows. The top row of blocks are "Channel" blocks with u-shaped interiors in which rebar is laid into and concrete poured in. L-shaped tie-down bolts are also installed in these channels every three feet or so.
The below view shows the west wall of the living room and the rising walls of the library. The black material on the basement walls is tar, used to waterproof the exterior of the basement.
The start of a weekend work day, below. Even if it was above freezing, it was still often very cold.
That big fireplace in the family room hit the spot on those cold days. During this time, the family room was used more as a storage area than anything else, but we always had a couple of easy chairs near it to snuggle up in.
The block laying was completed early November, so framing of the upstairs commenced.
Up goes another one of those 7" x 14" beams. This one is above the second floor nursery. Left is my Dad, center is Randy Anstey, me on the right.
Below: Upstairs framing for bedrooms three and four. About this time it just got too cold to do any more outside work. but there was more than enough to do inside. The only times we stopped working was when there was no money for materials.
Leaving that framing exposed to the elements was risky business, but the winter was dry enough that no damage occured. When it snowed, I would go out and broom the snow off the sub-flooring.
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