We had a little more snow last night. High today was 16F with 25-30 mph gusts, resulting in a wind chill of -5F. Low tonight is supposed to be -1F. High tomorrow is supposed to be up to 19F but sunny. Possiblity of more snow Thursday night.
I called "Our" Mike this evening to ensure he had had an opportunity to review the glass roof drawings. I am most anxious to get this roof fabrication moving ahead. Mike said that he had in fact talked with Jim (glass roof) this afternoon. Mike said he is very comfortable with the design and, from his talk with Jim, is confident with the product Jim will be sending us. Mike said he still thought Jim was waiting for a formal sign-off from the architect however. I asked Mike if he would contact Tyler to request he send this approval to Jim. Mike assured me he would do so. Just in case, I sent a note to Tyler asking him to formally approve the design. Later in the evening, I got a note from Tyler stating, "Here is my half". Attached was a copy of the drawing with a stamp from Tyler's firm as "REVIEWED". Why he sent it to me and not to Jim, I don't know. My interpretation is that neither Tyler nor Mike really want to go on the record as approving this design. I responded to Tyler that I would call Jim tomorrow and find out if this was sufficient.
I also talked with Mike about the cupolas. I told him I was not going to place the order for the sunroom cupola until we had a definitive plan on the ventilation fan to be used. Mike said he had not seen the actual dimensions or the cupolas. I sent these to Mike and Tyler last week. Tyler acknowledge he had received them. I will send them again to Mike tonight. Mike said he would check into the dimensions required to go the exhaust fan approach. I am very confortable with this approach as long as the 30" sunroom cupola has enough roof surface to accomodate, ideally, two of them. I reminded Mike that we not only wanted to have an exhaust capability to control humidity, but also enough fan capacity to create a draft, like an attic fan. In the email I sent to both Mike and Tyler on February 12, I suggested a sunroom capacity of up to 2,300 cfm and a garage capacity of up to 3,000 cfm. These were based on 15 air turn overs per hour and my guesses at the volumes of both buildings. I did not get a feedback from Tyler on whether or not he agreed with my calculations and I got no response at all from Mike.
Mike also said he had talked with Bobby (fireplace) today and was actually sending some additional work Bobby's way on the house Mike is building out in West County. Mike said the roofs are ready to start, but he has requested a written cost estimate. He has also talked with the brick layers. Mike is going to try to have the brick layers do our job before starting on the West County house, which he estimated would keep them occupied for six weeks.
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