Just another bump in the road...

...Or it could be a block wall, in this case. One, that had already been poured (mostly) solid.

There were big storms here Saturday night. Several neighboring communities had tornadoes, with damage in the millions of dollars. So, on Monday morning, Pete and I decided to drop by the house to make sure all the walls were still up and the tree hadn't fallen down or anything like that. We weren't expecting anyone to be there because the lumber pack, that we had just learned only days before, was not coming until late morning. We assumed this meant the framers would deb rescheduled for Tuesday. We were quite surprised to see a new crew when we got there. We were also pleased that here was no effect whatsoever from the storm. Even the silt fence was still up.

The framers were busy putting together the truss pieces. (You can see the newly poured beam over where the sliding glass doors will be in the back of this photo)

So, we introduced ourselves to the framers. They told us there was a problem. That wall, at the top of the page, was too tall on 3 sides. The front section was supposed to be 11'4" like it was, but the trusses were designed to that the sides and back were 9'4". We think that the section on the plan set that indicated this should have been on the back side, where the walls were supposed to be shorter, but it's too late now.

So, we called the mason and he came out to take a look. He said he was going to send a crew out later to cut the wall down. While we were waiting for him to show up, the lumber pack arrived!

The whole truckload is for us!!!

And later on, the masons came back and cut down the wall. It took quite a lot of sawing and a lot of (HARD) whacks with the sledgehammer to get it down. That's a strong wall!!

And now, our pile of concrete rubble is even bigger!  Because our space is so limited, we haven't brought in the dumpster yet. So once the crane comes and flies the trusses, we will be able to get the dumpster in and clean all this stuff up!

So, we are all set for trusses now. We even picked up the truss hangers that were delivered with the trusses, but had somehow disappeared. The framer called Tuesday to tell me that the soonest he could get a crane was Friday. We would have liked it sooner, but those are the cards we were dealt.
Too bad this is what the forecast looks like for Friday:

We will see how it goes! My guess is that we will get pushed into next week.