Structural steel day 6

Day 6 of structural steel installation. Today the crew from AMX Steel continue to finish up all the moment connections on my steel structural. If you looked at the full resolution photo of the picture from past days, you will notice that all the steels columns and beams are only secured by 2 or 3 bolts and not all of them are tightened. This is so that they can adjust the frame to level and square. Once they got the structure where it should be, they then install all the bolts and tightens them. That’s what’s remaining for the next few days. They pretty much finished the back 1/3 of the house including the balcony by the end of the day. And they are going to continue to work on it for the rest of the week. Here’s a picture of the now completed back side of the house. You can see all the moment connection’s bolts are now installed and tightened.

Here’s the picture of the balcony in the rear. You can see they have also applied paint on the area where welding was done to secure some of the beams.

Here’s a view of the other side of the balcony.

Another piece of good news is that the two missing steel tubes here and all they need is to weld it in place on the top of the structure.

The crew started to work around 9am and left around 3:30pm. Work continues tomorrow.

Here’s a time-lapsed video for day 6.