Framing Complete!

We hit another important milestone in the renovation today: the framing is complete.

Triumph!

Despite a 12 hour thunderstorm, and unprecedented rainfall in the Nation's Capital today, the woodwork nearly got completed, leaving only a small number of items left to do. Unfortunately, the rain meant that Lesley was unable to continue her fine work on the window exteriors, but such is life. Today saw the completion of the last bulkhead for the hell-wall, and the the last section of wall. I didn't make things any easier on myself today as I made several mistakes measuring, and had to re-cut a good many pieces. That, and the hell-wall had one final dagger to throw by requiring that a hanger be trimmed in order to fit in the final section of wall. Of course, this being fairly hidden, I didn't find out that trimming was required until I started to try and fit the wall section into place. Oh, loathsome wall. Nonetheless, the work got done, and we're thrilled to soon be moving on to the electrical.

Bulked up

Framing complete

We'll be picking away at the smaller tasks for the next little while until we get ourselves prepared to do the wiring. I don't expect wiring to take a long time, but experience tells me that much time will be taken up solving unanticipated problems. We shall see.