: About Me

Imagine a residential, new construction, work site: First week of framing, concrete basement, no stairs down to it yet, first floor is on, it's plywood. First floor walls are framed up, no 2nd story framing yet. Your buddy goes into the basement in the middle of the day to release his morning coffee, walking around outside to the door opening below. He finds a dark, remote corner. Up on the first floor deck you scramble to find a 2x8", or better yet, a 2x10" piece of lumber, hopefully at least eight feet long, ideally, 10-12 feet in length. What you do next will affect the rest of his, and...