Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Progress will be slow for a while

It's been almost 2 weeks since the Terra-Dome crew finished the job and left. We've made very little progress since that time and it's frustrating. We've spent the majority of this 2 weeks going around the site and picking up trash, debris, broken tools, left-over lumber (from the forms), nails, form pegs and wedges, form straps, rebar, rebar wire ties, and much more. I've moved some gravel into the house, but there's more to do, obviously.
We've done very little on the roof. We've done no waterproofing yet. We're still cleaning up the site.and, we still have normal maintenance on the property, as well as the house we currently live in. There's just so much to do, and only Rachel & I to do them.
We've had recent autmotive issues to deal with, which were unexpected. There's just so much to do, and not enough time to get it all done.
I was reviewing my list of things to do before the slab can be poured. I posted that list a week ago. It was "A Mountain To Cross Before the Slab Is Poured". With all these maintenance and cleanup issues, we're thinking that in order to make progress, we need help. So (when we have time), we'll check around and see if we can find someone in the area that needs a few extra bucks to work 4 hours or so every weekend. We'll hopefully find someone that is willing (and able) to do some labor, and that we can afford to pay.I can tell from experience, that this is not going to be easy. Most adults already have jobs. Most young people aren't willing to work. They all think their time is work $20 an hour, but they wont actually do any work for it. They put in an hour or so, and think that it's time to be paid.
Anyway, I think that's going to be an additional task. We need to get help in order to get moving on this project.
I should add, that the reason we're thinking we need someone 4 (maybe 6) hours every weekend, isn't that we don't think we have more work than that. It's mostly an issue of this is an amount of time we feel comfortable with keeping someone busy during that time. It give us time during the week to plan for the following weekend, and come up with the best list of tasks for this person to do. That, combined with the financial impact of paying someone for this labor; we figure that 4 hours or so is a safe way to start hiring labor.

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