Day 31: Lots of tasks

A short post today just listing the tasks that were started or completed.

• Filled in APEX block around the big beam up to 8 courses.
• Cut all the remaining window bucks for the 2nd story.
• Assembled all but one window buck.
• Cut and installed vertical rebar in APEX cores under 2nd story window locations.
• Planed and sanded two 4X10 ledgers.
• Shored up the south wall in preparation for installing 2nd story window bucks.
  
• Installed one window buck.
• Drilled holes in one of the ledgers for J-bolt attachments to the wall.
• Drilled 5 inch diameter holes in the West kitchen wall to form concentric concrete cylinders around each J-bolt during the next grout lift.

Here is a pic at the end of day 31. The 2nd story is starting to take shape.

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