Day 34: Still getting ready for wall lift #2

Cindy showed up around lunch time today and took pics. Hanging a ledger in the family room.

Justin, Trevor, Mike, Marty and Raphael are all doing something...

...and Stella is taking a nap - she better not report those hours on her timesheet.

Justin spent a few hours preparing and hanging a ledger for the porch and utility room roof. He also prepared a beam seat for an exposed redwood beam over the porch.

The crew spent a few hours building braces and shoring up walls to make them vertical. Here is a pic of Cindy in front of the South wall. The APEX block walls are like a patient in intensive care - braced and supported to hold shape until the grout is poured.

Mike spent a few hours cutting the last vertical rebars that will go up to the wall top plate.

Joshua installed malleable iron washers on the ledgers and set the depth that the J-bolts will be cast into the concrete cores.

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