7/21/05
I finally got to meet Tracy! As soon as she looked at the photos I took she spotted that I installed the stairway beam wrong.
Rain today made for good mini-working, so off I went to fix the stairway beam & install the other ceiling beams. I read the instructions & schematics 3 more times & decided to try to follow them. Many "magic" words & a bit of hammering later & some surgery I still don't know if the thing'll hold. The box of remaining plywood sheets is sitting on top of the front.
I would suggest first gluing the beams to the notched back support and the glue them to wall C (beams 1-8). If you're going to plaster the interior walls (like I did) it would be nice to know ahead of time that beams 1, 8, 9 & 14 are flush with the top of the walls and mask for them before plastering. I would also be nice if the nothes on the back supports corresponded better with the front wall notch holes. Because of the surgery to get the notches to line up I'll eventually need filler at the stairwell end.
I was so involved with with problem-solving the beams installation I forgot to take pictures until the house was ready to go back under the bed.
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