We have a floor

[nanasohana]

Our goal this week was to have the floor framed and up porch stairs on...we made it. Man those 4x8 3/4 ply are heavy (being wet didn't help)

[Lee G]

Hi Nancy,
It's sure nice walking on a flat surface isn't it. Next major goal getting a roof over that floor. How high off the ground did you go? We went with 36" it's just high enough that you can crawl kinda sitting up and don't have to belly crawl.
Aloha
Lee

[mella l]

Nancy why don't you and Fred start a single thread we can all post questions to called something like Nancy and Fred's Progress, or PROGRESS in Tiki Gardens! Just a suggestion and then all this will be a continuing story, and a time line for your adventure, project. None of my business but just something to consider no! Aloha, Mella L

mella l

[Hotzcatz]

Aloha Nancy,

Floors are good! Now will there be dancing?

Slamming wet 3/4" T & G floor plates together can be fun, can't it?

Did you know they make a handy little tool called a "panel carrier"? It is a handle with a piece of channel attached to the bottom. Kinda lengthens your arm by about a foot and a half with a carrier crook at the bottom. You can lift the big plywood and drywall panels easier and see over the suckers while moving them around.

A hui hou,
Cathy

[nanasohana]

We have decided the wet ply floor has been the hardest part so far. Yes I saw the carriers and bought some..neat tool. And endlessly sweeping off the water on the ply floor is fun....and I did do a "dancing in the rain" routine yesterday...how did you know?

[Royall]

I agree with you Nancy, the wet flooring being the hardest part. When we laid the flooring on the house I worked on in Volcano I was pulling the next piece over the joists and missed a step! I fell though and barked up both shins and landed on my left leg. Ouch! I had a bruise that went from the butt cheek to the knee and almost all the way around. That was in October, and it is still a little touchy. The other non-fun of building is running around on top of the trusses and putting perlings out on the rafter tails and anything else that is over 5 feet off the ground!

Royall

What goes around comes around!

[pslamont]

Our floor was really big and it rained nonstop for months before we got the roof up. Whack me in the head with a stick. When we framed up the walls it made for nice pockets of standing water..... but we finally figured it out. We drilled holes in each room to allow the water to drain Made moring sweeping quick and helped preserve that plywood. Just an indea......

Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!