Today, we updated the electronic CAD drawings to reflect the new position of the windows along the wall that has the back door in it (this wall is next to the garage), and also the front door side wall where there is a small window, and finally, the Great Room side window that looks down the length of the swimming lane.
Then after lunch, we went around with our slot template and our router machine, and sliced a whole series of slots into the Footplate which is sitting on top of the Perimeter Wall. we did all the windows first and then with a list of measurements off the drawings, we then did the walls that had no windows. For the smaller length of walls, we had to cut down our template so we could fit it into the space and finally finished off at the front extension. We were careful to make sure that any nails were properly knocked down well below the surface so the tungsten router bit didn’t hit a metal object and crack the bit.
Router-cutting-a-slot
Slots-cut-in-Sole-plate
The final job was to laser measure the absolute height of the footplates (the upper one on top of the Perimeter wall, and the lower one on the concrete floor) and transfer these numbers into the drawing. We had a range of measurements of mostly 460 mm to 461 mm with a couple of odd 455 mm and 463 mm points, all for the upper Footplate. The lower Footplate came out at mostly 1340mm to 1342mm with a couple at 1336 mm and one at 1346 mm. Not bad we would say if we weren’t modest!