We are about to hit a stopping point or a bottle neck. When working with antique timbers you have to be ahead of the game when determining what you need to order because finding antique timbers and getting them to the site to install is not a task that happens like ordering studs from the local lumber yard. We have a couple of sources that we work with but it seems that speedy response time is not a characteristic common in the antique lumber business. So we are trying to get our timbers for the connector porch and the porch off the kitchen but more importantly then both of those is the tie-logs that the client has decided to add to the inside of the timber structure. Those have to be installed before the final roof goes in so we can use the structure to help pull the timbers into place.
In the meantime we are trying to coordinate the final foundation retaining walls for the driveway. The site is so tight it's hard to coordinate lumber deliveries and getting work done around the excavation work that is needed to pour the last wall, not to mention the dreaded engineering that is needed.
