1/12/09 - 1/19/09

Weather: Partly Cloudy, Highs in the mid 50s. 10% chance of rain this evening.

Bailey electric is on site. JR asked me abbout room 417. It's been changed from an accesible double queen to a lengthened souble queen and needed to know whether to follow the lay out for the accesible queen, or the regular double queen since we don't have a lay out for a lengthened queen. Chase said to go with the accesible lay out.


Moses Mechanical and Plumbing are on site.


Southalnds framing crew is here installing windows, decking the roof, taking down guard rails and finishing the outside sheathing.


Tricon's drywall creww is putting up pre rock. Nathan is supervising.

Freedom Firepro is on site moving and staging materials.


1/13/09


Weather: Cold and windy. Highs in the mid 30s.


Bailey is on site with a full crew. I got copies of the CCTV placements. They got the sheet rockers to put rock up in the mechanical rooms so they could mount their boxes.


Moses Mechanical and Plumbing is here today. Mike has been in Little Rock the last two days. He'll be back here tomorrow.
Brian is needing cut sheets for the dryer vents so he can stub out for the vent.

Tricon's drywall crew is pre rocking the corriders.


G & S insulation will be back tomorrow to finish the pre rock areas.

Ptac sleeves and wall plenums for the Vtac were delivered today along with drain kits for the Ptac sleeves.


Southland's framers are almost done putting the decking on the roof. Roofers and material will be here tomorrow.


1/14/09


Elite Roofing blacked in the roof with felt paper. They'll be back Saturday and Sunday to finish roofing with shingles.

Southland is putting in windows and working on the floor joists for the second floor extended stay.

Tricon's rockers are putting pre rock in the corridor on all floors.


Freedom Firepro is running PVC and iron pipe on the 1st floor.

Moses Mechanical and Plumbing are on site. Mechanical is running slow. The Plumbers are waiting on the framers to finish to extend stay suites.


Bailey is up on the third and fourth floors running wire and mounting boxes.


1/15/09

Weather: Cold and spitting snow. Highs in the low 30s.


We had a welder come out to look at adjusting some of the steel columns for the front porch.


Southland's framers are tyveking the exterior and putting in windows. They started building dormers for teh rof. They had one dormer set by the end of the day.


Bailey is on site with a full crew working. Jerime is putting up his boxes in the mechanical rooms.


Moses Plumbing and Mechanical is on site. Plumbing is pushing pipe up. Mike was in Little Rock today.
Mechanical is still running condesate lines for the Ptacs and Vtacs.


Freedom firepro is running they're main down the 1st floor corridor.

Canant Construction is setting forms in the North parking lot. Drew was the man in charge. He told methat they were allowing 1" fall from the building to the sidewalk and 1" fall from the side walk to top of curb. I didn't think that was right. I checked the plans and got with Drew about the correct elevations specified i nthe plans. So they are redoing some of their forms.


A fall protection specialist came by at Alex's request so that he and I could ask him some questions about harnesses and tying off.

Gary had the stomach cramps and was out most of the day.


Alex and I pulled measurements and set a string line that is square to the building and at the right dimension for the front porch posts.


1/16/09

Weather: Very cold and windy. Highs in the 20s.


Tony Butler and Pops with Pop's welding showed up to move columns for the front porch. they eneded up moving 12 of the little columns Friday and Saturday.


Southland's framers are building the rest of the dormers for the roof. They set another one and had the other two ready to go up. They're tyveking the outside of the building.


Moses Plumbing is in Little Rock today.


Bailey has their crew on site.


Freedom Firepro has their crew on site.


Alex, Gary and I spent most of the morning laying out the correct dimensions for the steel columns.

I field verified the measurements for the door throats.


1/17/09


Elite roofing came to shingle in the roof today and Sunday.


Southland had some framers setting the last two dormers.


Tony with Pop's Welding was setting the columns for the front porch.


1/19/09


Weather: Cool and windy. Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 40s.

Sub list: Bailey Electric
Moses Mechanical and Plumbing
Southland Framing
Tricon Drywall
Freedom Firepro
NK Plastering



Mike with Moses Plumbing said that he is very frustrated with the framing crew. They'er holding him up by not finishing the extended stay suites and the ADA bathroom that's framed wrong on the 1st floor. He'll be lucky to make the 1/30 deadline for inspection.


Tricon is being slowed down because Alex doesn't have details from Chase about the fir downs in the meeting rooms, Pool room, Breakfast room and Lobby and corridors.


The framers are woking on the extended stay suites on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors. They have a lot of work to do.


Mechanical is starting to set a few Ptac sleeves. They have a new guy here names Sean.


The curbs that Moses Mechanical set in the roof are not square at the top. They were manufactered for the wrong pitch. Moses is going to get the right ones out here.


Freedom Firepro is running their trunk in the attic. They have some of their orange lines are in the way of Moses' "p" traps and risers.


Magnum Materials delivered sme dry wall for the pre rockers.


NK Plastering had a couple of guys here to unload a truck of foam.


Bailey is up on the fourth floor running cable and setting boxes.


Nick Canant says if we can get al the materials off of the gravel, he'll pour concrete on Thursday.

I called Hugg and Hall to purchase some propane heaters for the building. They'll have to get them out of Springdale.