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Fri, Sun, Monday - no progress.
I brought Leroy and Alston in on Friday to dis-assemble the front panels in preparation for the new steel. I made a deal that we would dis-assemble the sheeting if Premier would send a crew to remove and erect the new steel on the front of the building. The crew was also suppose to roof the 40 x 60 main section of the building.
The steel arrived early Sunday morning with the expectation that the building crew would be there Sunday afternoon to start working. The driver said he was suppose to take the old steel back with him. That was fine with me, but he would have to wait until it came off of the building. As he was leaving to head over to the truck stop to wait he backed over my mailbox and destroyed it. I know he felt bad and paid me for the mailbox right then and there. I told him as soon as the crew got here and took down the steel I'd call him so he could come pick it up.
At around 5:00pm I called the driver and told him he should phone his office because he wasn't getting any steel today. Soon afterward I got a call from Scott at Premier asking how the crew was doing. When I told him that I hadn't seen nor heard from the crew he started to panic. I told him the driver was still waiting for the steel. He said he'd call me back in an hour and we got off the phone. I never did get a call back from Scott.
Monday morning the erection crew rolled in. They had been in NJ for the last 9 weeks and were down here for some R & R. They got started right away on the steel and I asked Grover what he would charge me extra to finish the roof all the way out to the front. His price was reasonable so I agreed. We still had to get the new steel in place.
After dis-assembling the girts and unbolting the purlins, we supported one eave at a time with the scissor lift and these guys removed and installed the columns by hand. Animals! With Brandon on the LULL they pulled out the old roof rafter and set it aside. The new rafters were bolted together and the stub columns added on the ground. With one guy on each column hanging onto thin air, the rafter got hoisted into place and bolted to the columns. Two of the guys stayed on the front of the building putting up girts and bolting in the purlins while Grover and his best guy started prepping for roof panels. While they broke for lunch, Leroy and Alston used the scissor lift to re-install the side panels and eave trim we had removed on Friday.
After the crew got back from lunch I asked Grover to measure to make sure the new steel was right. Well, lo and behold, something was wrong. The clips at the columns measured the corect 12 feet from the floor but when he measured the clips at the stub columns, each was off too high by a different amount. We measured the peak at the bottom and it was too high as well. When we measured the width at the top of the columns we were 1 inch too narrow. Not even close to being a duplicate of the next column line like it was suppose to be.
We got an hour long rain storm and Grover used that time to come up with a plan. He decided to try to loosen the bolts at the rafter peak to see if it would drop enough to make up for the extra height. He could only get a half inch and had a big gap at the bottom of the flanges. He checked the pitch of the flanges at both ends and found that the column flanges were correct but the peak flanges were at 3 3/4:12 instead of 4:12. Big difference and wrong. After several phone calls to Scott at Premier and the experts at the factory it was decided that the factory was going to send, not only 'new' new steel, but someone from the factory to install it. Grover and his crew will be back on Tuesday morning to do the roofing up to the carport. They have to go back to NJ to finish The job they are on up there.
I got in touch with Scott and asked if he could let Grover and his crew stay to finish my job but he said that wasn't possible. I told him that I'd made a deal with grover to finish the roof and because he was sending him away he'd have to have the factory crew do the work instead. He said he'd call me back today. I've heard that song alot from Scott and it's starting to get old. It's almost 10pm and not a peep.
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