On Saturday afternoon, we went window shopping -- by which I mean shopping for windows, not browsing at the mall. (Josh would NEVER agree to that kind of window shopping!) We visited a couple recycled building material warehouses down in Alexandria, and ended up getting these two vinyl double-hung windows at the ReBuild Warehouse for just $68 (total)! Since they're going on the garage, our priorities were cheap and low-maintenance rather than aesthetics or energy efficiency, but these are double-glazed and go pretty well with the windows on our house, so that was an added bonus.
This morning the framing crew arrived around 9 am and got to work. Rob had said it would only take them 2 days to frame the garage, which sounded ambitious to me, but when Steve W met them at our house this morning, they told him they would probably finish the job today. He seemed skeptical, so I was, too. I was working from home, so I was able to watch the progress from my office window. (But these photos are taken from the family room.)
By 11 am, they already had 3 walls framed in.
And by noon, they had started attaching the plywood exterior.
By 4 pm, the roof was framed.
And at 7 pm, it looked like a garage! With windows, no less!
It's now 8 pm, and they have cleaned up and are just loading the last of their tools into the van. That was quite a day's work! It was miserably hot and humid today -- even now it's 86 degrees with 73% humidity -- so I put a cooler full of cold soft drinks and bottled water left over from last weekend's BBQ out on the back porch for them. It's probably empty now.Not sure what, if anything, will happen tomorrow, but I'll keep you posted...
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