The first big wobble came today. I got an unexpected call from Mikkel, lead carpenter on the project; unexpected because I didn’t know they would be working today, on the weekend. The wobble came because I came to suspect he wasn’t really working on the assumption that the steel beams that will support the structure internally may well be more than the official 10cm deep. I had measured them when I went to order them at the scrap yard and found most of them to be 10.4cm deep. This information I relayed to Mikkel at the time, along with my concerns that if he was using 10x5cm timber to build the frame, we might find ourselves unable to insert the steel beams once we arrive on site for the installation. I asked him at the time if he needed to have the beams in the workshop before building the structure and he told me no.
Now he is telling me I need to get smaller beams (though the beams were recommended by the structural engineer, he told me the size needed and spacing) or to make sure I get the ones that are 10.2cm or less. So I will go to the steel yard tomorrow, hoping that there are some beams that are less than 10.4cm deep, and that I can get them cut and delivered this week. Otherwise, we have a fairly major setback already…..
