Today I took another much needed break from office/computer work to work up the street at the River.
Yesterday I returned to work on one of the many ongoing projects there, picking up this time from where I’d left off before Lee was born in January: the floor installation. So yesterday I hand-carried a truck full of white pine tonge-and-groove flooring half an acre or so to the job site, since I couldn’t drive on the wet, soft ground. I got the job site prepped for installation, my workstation organized and installed my first few pieces, then called it a day. It was a short day at only three hours, but a very busy one.
Today I got in a decent amount of work in only five hours, installing up to nearly 3/4 quarters of the flooring. I also helped Tim install the main, front window, which was really nice as it really brightens the room and makes working amidst stone and block that much better.
Tomorrow, time permitting, I’ll be back to finish the flooring installation. Then it’s on to finishing the window and door installations, the ceiling, the interior wall, wiring, heating, and some other odds and ends.
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Today I finished the subfloor.
It came out nearly perfect, except for one block leveling form. I opted not to redo it as it doesn’t impact the floor’s integrity nor will it effect the finished look (though it looks funny now). I should start laying the flooring tomorrow and in the end, no one will ever know. Except us 
.
I also was happy to recycle the plastic bags the insulation came packaged in as additional vapor barrier protection, the original concrete floor I broke up I also reused in another project down by the river, as a rainwater runoff filter and barrier. It helps sort some of the debris, soil and what not from the farm field above, before dumping into the river below, while retaining much (hopefully all) the embankments soil on the trail leading down to the river.
In addition, the insulation I’ve been installing throughout this room (ceiling, walls, subfloor) will greatly help reduce heat loss after it’s finishing, thereby reducing the heating needed (probably a natural gas heater).
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I’ve been working back at the River intermittently since I moved back to PA.
Right now we’re building this barn in place of the old changing stalls from the old canoe company. Last week I started moving stuff in storage from the front room on the ground floor to here so we can start work on the master office, on the first floor of the 4-story house we built back in ’99.
I’m working alongside Tim some days and some days on my own; either suits me just fine.
The shot here is from the back side facing west. We’ll be mounting a gutter for rainwater catchment for the garden that sits to the right of this shot at some point.
Most of the barn has been built with recycled materials from throughout the grounds, including the old pavillion customers would wait under before or after their river trip. It’s weird working back here, so many ghosts, both painful and great.
