Insulation going in....
Took me a little while to get my errands run this morning, but eventually I finished putting in the joist hangers. about that time my eldest son showed up. We picked up the framing and got all except one pier set up to be connected to the frame. I'm not going to connect them until after I get the decking down. At that point I'll jack up the framing and level the whole deck. As it stands now, there are a few piers which need more stone under them. I'll only need to put a little stone under each one to level everything off once again.
Looks pretty level under there to me.
I pulled a Marty and except for one photo in the afternoon, I waited until After dark to finish off the pictures. Luckily my Sony has IR focusing.
I mis-calculated on joists, and my local store was closed, so I trundled off to the
Borg again (different one), and almost had to go to the
Borg because they were Out of 2x8x12's.
OK... plan B. yep, you guessed it. my final joist is a 2x10x12! it is barely noticeable to anyone but me.
About the time I got back from the Borg, there was a message from another new friend, Mark from over on Woodnet. He had chatted with Sean, and stopped by to help. Poor guy, wound up with the first 'shop' injury. We got the blocking all installed and were stapling in the reflectix when he missed and stapled his hand!
Lori was sitting nearby, and promptly got out the medical fixings and dressed his wound. It was getting pretty dark by then, so we bundled up his tools (He brought his Dewalt Circular saw, which I got to try out, nice saw, but my $20 craftsman (garage sale find) works just great still. He had the whole Ryobi 10-pack in a neat rolling case, and the impact driver came in handy putting in the short bracing between the joists on the end 'bays'.
While I was saying thank you and 'y'all come back' now yea hear?' Lori and Go-fer, er Adam went back to stapling insulation between the joists. I get back to the deck and hear 'Ow!'. you guessed it, the stapler claimed another victim. Lori this time, not 5 minutes after Mark left. Lori had just picked up a new 'backwards' (hinged at the back instead of the head end) which was the culprit.
We bandaged her up too, and picked up tools by the light of the neighbor's yard light.
Once the insulation is stapled in, I can go ahead and start putting down the CDX. Adam is going to keep on going after he gets home from school, so I may be putting deck down tomorrow evening. Depends on the weather, there may be rain when I get out of work.
I even got the blocking put in between the joists. Had to get a little creative on the end bays, but that floor shouldn't wrack or squeak.
All in all, I'm pleased with how I caught up today. I think I'll get a little done each evening this week, floor tomorrow, joists assembled on Tuesday, walls framed up Wednesday and Thursday etc... This coming weekend I've got a couple of things to do out of the house, so I don't expect I'll get much done either weekend day.
Oh, I forgot to order my floor joists for the loft, so I got another delivery this afternoon (before I realized I needed one more PT joist)
I'll figure it out later. 
(can anyone say Benchtop Mortiser? I thought you could)
