Number 42 advancing

I almost missed my train home today. While laying out some pallet steps (well, one) I checked my phone to see that the time was 15:45. That gave Richard about 13 minutes to get me to the train station. On the way there, there was some road works going on or something, and getting caught in that made me think for certain that I wasn't going to make the train on time. Fortunately for me, we actually did make it, and I had about 4 minutes to spare to get out of my muddy boots and back into my sneakers. I'm sure the train staff and all would not have been happy with me at all if I got onto the train in those boots.

The project is advancing rather quickly now. We have a retired builder (Abi/Abby?) helping us out with it, as well as some younger guys helping. Because of that, most of the flooring has been laid down and screwed down to the beams that were already down. Also, two walling beams (I'm not entirely sure what to call them) have been built and raised up to make one of the walls.

A couple of the younger guys cut back some of the tree branches that were over lapping the building, although the trees themselves really need to be cut down to let in sunlight as the place is going to be powered by solar panels. I'm not sure what Richard's plans are for that. I know that he wants the 3-4 trees next to the railway removed to let in the sunlight from that angle. I think that he was going to cut down the others too that are almost overlapping the building, but maybe that plan has changed. I don't know.

Yesterday, Abby was talking to one of his friends about the building, I think his name was Rob. Rob was talking about how the floor looked really unstable, and that was really needed more underneath the flooring beams to make it a lot more sturdy. At one point, be was slightly bouncing on it, and one of the beams sounded like it was going to break in two. Due to this, we had to add several breeze blocks under some more of the beams. That was a lot of heavy lifting for me unfortunately. Never had to do any real heavy lifting today.

So, our advancements over the last two days?

1. Several more breeze blocks placed under the flooring beams.
2. Flooring laid (mostly).
3. One wall erected (Wall beams?)
4. Several tree branches cut back.
5. Started to lay pallet steps (That could be one or more steps after I left.)