How is your neighbor doing on the jobsite? you metioned him at the begining about wanting t learn some lifetime skills.
Great progress and I am sure you will be happy to get it all under roof and weathertight.
The neighbor is doing great. Show him once, and he is on top of the game. He did mark some studs wrong though, and that may have been my fault. A lot of people have a hard time understanding me when I speak. I needed the studs marked at 116 5/8" and he marked them at 116 1/8". I caught it when we were nailing the walls together. He felt terrible and was going to buy more studs I think. I told him not to worry about it as they would get used anyways for Jack Studs. He marked 11, and by the time we cut up Jack studs and some blocking, they were all used up.
It's funny because everyone things I am super **** about things, yet they worry more than I do. All in all, we've worked together on this, but we've all had a good time doing it. Either the beginning of this thread, or it may have been one other.......one member said he wouldn't work for me for anything because of the fact that I went through 4 contractors before I picked this one to do the work, and basically I was a ***** for bitching about the others prices. This contractor told me the other day that he wished all customers were as easy to get along as I am.
With the rain we've been having, his business is suffering some, and he's having a hard time getting to some jobs to get a cash flow going, so the other day I advanced him $3000. Not all people would do that with a contractor, but I know Craig, he's worked for me before, and has always treated me right. He keeps everything wrote down, I keep everything wrote down, and just like when we went over on the quote for the concrete, he was going to eat that cost but I made it square with him. He did ask me to pay the neighbor. I told him to pay him a fair wage as the neighbor is basically working for him and not me, so he was good with that. I just wish more contractors around here were like Craig is. I keep trying to tell him to advertise here in Urbana, and he'd probably have more business than he would want, because you can't find ones around here to work, and that's a fact. Most of the work I see getting done is done by out of towners or out of county.
But yea, to answer your question, my neighbor is doing great and has been an asset when it comes to help. For one, he works out and has quite a bit of strength. A real asset when it comes to moving something or lifting something. When everyone else is carrying one sheet of OSB, he's carrying three. When everyone is carrying two studs, he's carrying six or seven at a time. He's definitely a real time saver for sure
And he's really going to be a big help when it comes to rafters, because they are going up by hand.
