EDP: Day 11

Today you can see the progress a little better. We put more than half of I joists up. Very first thing we did today, and spent nice long time was to put 3 basement poles in a place, and made the beam level. But after all the first measurement doesn't really mean anything anymore. When we put I joists we needed to do adjustment. But that's ok.

今日は昨日よりも経過が見やすい。今日は半分以上Iジョイスを固定しました。朝一番から結構な時間をかけて地下の柱をきちんとした位置に固定してビームの水平をはかったあげく、Iジョイスをのせた後やたらと微調整が必要で、あまり意味がなかった。ま、いっか。

After we put up poles, we started make marks for the I joists. 16 feet in between I joists. We chalked 1" 3/8 far from out side wall that's where I joists start. Use nail gun to nail both ends. This nail gun made our work so much easier and faster. I can't imagine do all this work with hand hummer. Good thing human keep inventing new tools. It makes us weaker, but I think it's ok. Anyway, our basement ceiling is still just sticks, but this shadow made me cooler. We finished up to stair ways. Then, we put our 3 brains together plus Mr. Drake's half brain over the phone, spent quite long time, and figured out stair part. So tomorrow we should be able to start smoother.

地下の柱を立てた後Iジョイスのくる位置を１６インチ毎に印を付ける。外側の壁から１インチ３／８（センチメーターならどんなに楽か！）に印を付けて、そこがIジョイスの出発点になる。Iジョイスをセットした後両端をネイルガンで止める。この道具は優れもの！おかげさまで何百倍も作業が楽に速くできる。どんどん新しい道具が発明されて人間は弱くなっていくけど、楽になるのはいいことだ。ともすれば藤のない藤棚のような影が涼しげなイメージ。階段をつける手前まで到達。それから三人寄って文殊の知恵を寄せあい、まだ足りずMrドレイクの遠隔頭脳をくわえて、階段の付け方を解決。これで明日は朝一番から作業がはかどるはず。

Thank you Bob so much to help us. My dogs were barking and asking me to call it a day. So we left the site.