Hump Day Humps

It's been an insane few days. Tuesday I used the sprayfoam fire block in holes between the floors, Deacon helped get all other woodwork done, Bryce sent his OK on our framing methods, so I felt pretty ready for Wednesday's inspection.

Asked friend Eric Campbell to come help me put up pocket door and frame in casement window on Wednesday. While I waited, I realized that I needed to use some of scrap Hardie siding to redo the clapboard siding below office windows in front of house. Figure bottom corner should match the rest of the house, right?

Wouldn't you know that I removed those 3 simple runs (5' x 3') and find that the plywood behind is wet. I've got a leak! Nothing is simple anymore it seems. As I started to pull away more and more wood to try and expose the leak, Eric shows up and we decide that it may just be due to having no gutters above window over the past 2 weeks. We leave it to dry out for now.

Here comes the inspector... but it's not the same as the last framing inspector. Well, that's not a problem for him. Will he decide there are other issues that I have to address? My stomach is in my throat as I lead him toward the stairs. He looks at the notes the last guy made and glances around the room. Doesn't care about the LVL support or new casement window (though he agrees that we could have avoided all that if we hadn't named the room "Bedroom" on the architectural plans).

What he does care about is the fireblocking and foamed penetrations. Seems I needed to take that foam and get it in the penetrations going through the roof as well, and every electrical hole drilled vertically in the outside walls. Exterior of bathroom wall needed to be blocked since we're dropping a ceiling in that room as well. Now my stomach was back where it belonged and my heart was right next to it. How many times would I have to do this re-inspecting? Wanted to have spray foam done Thursday.

Then the sun came out and he said, "It looks pretty good. Fix those couple of things and you'll be done. I'll give you a partial but finish that blocking." We talked about kids today and work ethic and summertime. Shook hands and he rode away. I had passed my framing inspection and was on my honor to finish the last things but could stay on schedule. Hallelujah!