Genius loves company
Nick gets his ingenuity from his dad. Often times Nick will come up
with a clever way to help make a job easier or more exact. Seeing him
work with his dad is great. They built a jig that held the joist tracks
that they needed to screw into the ceiling to hold the tubing for the
radiant flooring. It has two grooves that the joist tracks sit into and
there is a movable piece of wood that you turn so it sits against the
side of the joist. While one lined the jig up, the other would
put screws in each of the outside corners to hold it in place.
Then the jig would be lifted off and the rest of the screws put in.
The
joist tracks all look nice and straight and I think it saved a bunch of
time.
No need for re-measuring and putting in chalk lines. They also
built temporary scaffolding to put on top of the sawhorses. When
the scaffolding needed to be moved, we just slid the entire thing
across the floor. Now if they could just invent something that could
shop vac the entire floor at once, that would be great! Nick's dad has
worked so hard this week & we sure hope he's willing to come back
next summer. We've promised that we'll tack on a trip to Mt.
Rainier on one of his visits.