The Screens

After finishing the rafters on Wednesday, I went into Thursday thinking that we would spend the day putting them up.  To my surprise, we postponed putting the rafters up until Friday and used Thursday to buy the trim and put up the screens.  While today was supposed to be a relaxing and easy day, it turned out to be the most frustrating day of project. After spending too much time at Lowes buying paint for the trim, an asparagus green, wood for the screens, and trim, we found ourselves at Wyatts with a couple hours to work.  Thinking that this would be more than enough, we were surprised at the difficulty of putting the screens in.  After struggling to find a level surface to cut the wood for the screens, we found that the garage would be the best location to do the measuring and screwing. While we were optimistic that this was the solution to the issue of levelness, we still struggled to create screens with the dimensions that were needed.  We got the first screen in comfortably, but spent over an hour trying to get a second and third screen in.  This task was supposed to be simple and somehow it took up all afternoon.  We weren't even able to finish the screens before we had to go to our after school commitments.  Fortunately, Wyatt was able to find time Thursday night to work on the screens himself.  This is a great example of things being more difficult than they appear to be.  With limited working experience in building, simple tasks such as these can turn out to take a great deal of time for our group.   The precision that is required for construction has given me a much greater appreciation for people in the industry.