Garage: Day Five

John the Carpenter arrived this morning with yet another assistant, Jeff, who is Reed's roommate. Reed started a new job this morning.

Before I knew it John had the sill plate done.

Now that's a sill plate.

We had to leave for an hour or so this afternoon. When we returned, he had replaced the old header that wasn't really attached to anything as it turns out. No wonder the wall was sagging. The triple beam butted up against the fake header above the window. The load wasn't transferred to the sill plate. It certainly is now.

New header in place with studs coming down to the sill plate.

The new header is a triple.

While I was cleaning the stainless steel sink, John told me about the time that he cut his forearm so badly that he had to have stitches both in his arm and in the skin. He was loading lumber into his truck when he dragged his arm along the very sharp edge of a 6" putty knife. As he put it, "You could look inside my arm." At first he did not realize that he had been hurt, then the kid at the lumber yard told him that he was bleeding. John likened it to someone turning on a faucet. Apparently it was gushing.

Since he had lumber sticking out of his truck, he didn't want to leave it unattended. He called one of his brothers to go with him to the ER so he could get stitches and the brother could stay with the truck. John swung by, picked up his brother, and drove himself to the ER. The brother stayed with the truck; John went in; John got stitches; John drove his brother back home; John went back to work.

What a guy!