Rough framing is done. Today the walls get plywood, and plywood is what keeps a wall honest.
The plan from Matt this morning: cut in the windows, which is the slow part of framing, then pull everything square and get it sheeted so rafters can start going in.
The theory behind the sheeting is worth knowing, because it is the whole reason a wall stays a wall. Plywood locks the top plate to the bottom plate. Screw it down and the panel becomes a field of triangles; triangles do not rack. The trailer is sitting on a hillside, so level is not on the table. Square is. Pull it square, sheet it, and it holds.
The walls are eight feet, and the front runs about nine and a half. That extra height is not decoration; it buys a two tiered bunk system. A railed sleeping deck goes up top, wide enough to feel like a tent platform, with a ladder up to it. Underneath is a larger common space that could take a bed, a couch, or a Murphy bed folded into the back wall. Tiny homes look top heavy built that way, but you are not moving them far.
In the program tents, Scouts have a kitchen sink to set and a run of residential plumbing to go with it. The electrical station keeps working switches and outlets. The Passport program runs alongside all of it, and Brian is on electrical again today.
Seventy five Scouts came through yesterday and fifty of them put hands on the trailer. Earlier in the week a few walked off because there was not enough personal protective equipment on site to put them to work; that is fixed, our own PPE came in at the logistics center, and the area is fully outfitted. The limit now is tools. Put an impact driver in twenty pairs of hands and the pace changes entirely.
Word is getting around.