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inevitable errors in really manifest
Thursday, May 31 2018
Yesterday I'd told Gretchen to pick me up some 3/8 inch by six inch lagbolts while she was in Woodstock, but only if they were self-tapping. She'd talked to someone at Houst Hardware who had decided that what I wanted was six inch non-galvanized lag bolts that were most decidedly not self-tapping. I can use them for something, but probably not the job of attaching the rafter plate to the wall of the house. That plate will potentially bear thousands of pounds of snow load and needs to be secured by lots of lagbolts.
Gretchen would be spending the afternoon down in Manhattan with our friend Andrea (the woman who stayed in our basement last summer), so at some point I drove to the Uptown Ghettoford for supplies: Naked mango smoothie, a carton of mushrooms (which it turned out we didn't need), Mr. & Mrs. T spicy bloody mary mix, two cans of Annie's soup, and bacon-flavored tempeh (one of my staples). I also found some self-drilling lagbolts at Herzog's (across the parking lot). While at the sketchy shopping center, I bought a large bottle of cheap white wine (1.5 litres of Copper Ridge pinot grigio for $9) as well as they cheapest single-malt scotch in the store (750 mL of McClelland's Speyside for about $25).
I made some progress with the screened-in porch project, though it was slow at first. I managed to cut a complete rafter (including birdsmouth) for the north end of the porch. In trying it out in the south end of the porch, I noticed that the birdsmouth would have to be about a quarter inch longer and the slope of the end cut a few degrees different to accomodate a non-verticality in the attachment plate at that end (something between the wall of the house and the bottom part of the plate was inducing a maddening twist). Small inevitable errors in really manifest on something like a rafter, where a lack of precision is immediately obvious. For this reason, I will have to cut a number of rafters custom for the south end of the porch.
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