Delivery Clarification

 The day of the delivery for my supplies came and went without any notification. In a way I wasn't too upset as we had a house full of guests at the time and it would have been inconvenient for the delivery. But I dropped the last one off at the airport and when I got home I got loaded up for bear and called the big box store and after wading through the menu options, finally spoke with a young man in their delivery department. This time, I got much different results.

When I asked why my three original orders got broken up into 17 sub orders, he said the hurricane down south really threw a wrench into things and they broke out hard to get items into special orders so it wouldn't slow the rest of the things down. Okay, I said, so where are the rest of the things. Well they were just waiting so they could deliver everything at once. Okay I said, so one, special ordering to separate does nothing and two, I broke my order into three separate orders when I placed it and paid for two separate shipping charges (one order I picked up from the store) so I could get things delivered sooner than other things. 

At this point he does a lot of mumbling and figuring out what is here and what isn't and after awhile I break in and ask, is there any reason you can't go ahead and deliver what you have right now (which includes the lumber I need next) and then put all the remaining items on the second delivery? He assured me he could but I would have to pay a second delivery charge. So I reiterated that I had already paid for two delivery charges so it shouldn't cost me a cent more than I have already paid for them to do so. More mumbling and typing and finally he said yes, they absolutely could do that and would tomorrow work for the first delivery. 

Absolutely I said.

So hopefully tomorrow is the day and I can get started framing instead of watching beautiful fall day after beautiful fall day pass me by with nothing but watching the concrete cure. 

Meanwhile, I'm marking out stud locations on the sill plate so I can get off to a quick start. The sill plate is made from my recycled concrete forms. C stands for cripple stud, X for a full length stud and J for a jack stud. They all have their specific purpose. I also marked out the location of the sill plate so I wouldn't put them in the wrong location and wrote down the rough opening dimensions for easy reference. The only thing left is to predrill holes for where I plan to screw them down to the concrete slab.