Date: August 4 - August 7, 2025
On Monday I was expecting deliveries from both Summit Lumber and Appalachian Truss. The truss guys asked me if it was OK to deliver in the afternoon. "Sure," I said, "Summit usually delivers early so we shouldn't have any conflicts on the driveway." Monday morning came and went with no sign of Summit. The truss guys showed up right on schedule at 2:30 and dropped the bundle:
Nice!
I had used the weekend and my wait time on Monday slogging more gravel around the back and now I had the drain pipe and fabric pretty well covered.
Documenting my gravel depth:
Back to the excitement, sometime around 4 PM I called Michael at Summit and asked where that delivery was. "We're short drivers today, we aren't going to make it" I was told. "Please get it here tomorrow as early as possible," I pleaded. Stacy McCurry had said his crew would be there "Tuesday or Wednesday," so I was playing it safe with the plead since from all past experience I figured that really meant Wednesday or Thursday.
Well Murphy was in charge as usual. Tuesday morning 8AM the McCurry Construction truck rolls up with a crew of 4 ready to get to work. Stacy isn't there, he's delegated this job to his son Austin who lives just a few miles down the valley from me. So I call Summit Lumber to check status and am told they are just finishing the loading now. Then we hang around waiting for the delivery. Around 11AM, having studied the plans, made out a list of lumber I should order, and done all the set up they could, they took off. They must have passed the Summit Truck on it's way up to my house, because it finally showed shortly thereafter.
Wednesday things started to roll. First task was getting the LVLs up. LVL is a one and inch wide micro-laminate plank with engineered load standards based on how tall it is. You can get higher loads by making it taller or using more of them next to each other. The truss guys had done the engineering for me and said I could use three together that were 18" tall, i.e. the beam would be 4.5"x18".
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