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The General Store and Post Office for the town of Index. |
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Kayaks along the wall of the Outdoor Adventure Center in Index. |
This weekend there was no work done at The Drunken Bear. Our friends, Bob and Doug had moved back into the city of Seattle (from Tacoma) and had an open house. We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share in their excitement and visit with friends. Besides, there was a poker game planned. With Steve and I having the extra expense of building this cabin we thought we could make some good money. Of course when you are playing poker for nickels, dimes and quarters, you are not going to walk away a big winner. Between the two of us, I think Steve and I made enough to buy 10 new square washers.
Square washers? Let me explain. This last week we had the inspector come by to check out our progress. On the plans we received at the time of purchase of our “2 year old Pan-Abode“, it showed round washers holding on the mudsill, so that is what we used. Well, times have changed and it has been proven that square washers are more effective and stronger than round washers. New regulations now state that square washers must be used. Steve says it will not be hard to correct this problem…except for those washers that are on bolts that lie under the floor joists. If you have read from the beginning, I said some of the bolts “were set in the concrete at different distances, with some placed more to the right side, some more to the left side, etc.” For those bolts set more towards the left side, or the outer side, we had to make cutouts on the floor joists to allow us to place the joist over the foundation bolts. To get at these bolts we will have to lift that section of the floor joists to replace the washers. Once this is done, we begin the squaring off again.
The inspector said everything else looked good and once we change the washers, we would be safe to move on.
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