Hi Everyone,
We had good news today. We got confirmation that the insurance company was releasing a substantial partial payment which we will receive this week. So we gave Jeffords Steel the go ahead to fabricate the steel. The fabrication date is May 11, 2009. The delivery date is May 18, 2009. We hope to be applying for a permit to erect the steel early next week, i.e. the week of April 27. Before the steel is delivered we hope to excavate and pour the footings so we are ready to erect the steel when it is delivered. A subcontractor will erect the steel and he estimates a little over two weeks to complete the job. That would give us a steel framed building by the end of the first week in June. We would then have to infill steel studs between the steel columns.
We are formulating plans now to decide how to build as quickly as possible. Our current brainstormed plan would be to run two separate crews on 4 10 hour days with the overlapping of crews staggered on different days (so both crew are not there on the overlapping day). We will also try to have a large enough crew to work on all areas at once.
This is an estimated timetable based on getting permits from the Town. By the end of next week we will know whether this plan will be confirmed. If it is, we will try to line up construction crews so we can give an estimated time of opening the different components. Terry