It's Thursday 31st May 2012 and the playground opening is one week today!
The stage saga continues!... After the no-show of the large timber order, we had many more evenings re-thinking the stage. We had already dug the holes for foundations, so we new the footprint, and came up with a pitched rood with a large truss at the front influenced by Liam. We based this design on what the timber merchant had in stock and the delivery came same day. We used the farmers workshop to roughly layout how it would be. And the conclusion we came to was ....it was HUGE! I expressed my reservations of actually building this based on time restrictions and the fact that everything is taking longer than we planned due to the tropical storms that like to show up every now and again! The trusses would also be really heavy, and with no scaffolding to help raise it, I was worried that we were just causing ourselves more problems. Plus there is the potential of hurricanes in the area and I wouldnt have been confident enough leaving here thinking that the structure could withstand a hurricane. SO! We have decided to strip the design right back to basics. It will now have 10 pine heart round posts, hardwood floor, pine roof board on boards. SImple is sometimes the best way- and we have learned loads going through this whole process... Maybe we were over complicating it from the start??!
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