Delivery Made and Construction Thoughts

Most of the windows arrived before Christmas.  As you can see, they filled up one of the bays of our window barn.  Now, our tractor, being displaced, is homeless for awhile.  A big thanks to Junius, Peter, Steve, Fred, and Kris and his helper from Nature Neutral in Charlottsville, VA.

We have been mulling over how to 'reinforce' the I-beams for supporting the second floor. They require gluing and screwing.  That requires a warm 55 degree environment for at least 24 hours.  One of the current thoughts is to finish the garage and put them in there and heat that area; and for the I-beams that are longer than the garage, we would create a plastic building extension that would retain some of the heat. We only need to work on one end at a time of those longer I-beams.  The shorter beams only need the reinforcement on one end.