Archive for February, 2006

Hustle Up the Hancock - 2006

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Team FILA Windward Steppers represented today at the Husstle Up the Hancock

Team FILE windward steppers: Andy Kucharski; Jennifer Braasch; Jennifer Kruprinski; Jennifer Weiss; Julie Chluda; Ken Antles; Laura Lara; Linda Tovar; Mara Levin; Mark Aistrope; Marla Wasserman; Morgan Sage; Pam Sfikas; Scot Lara; Tomas Hoang; Wayne Borsheim

The overall results can be found here, Our team’s results are below (yes, its very dorky, i know):

Hustle Up the Hancock
94 Floor Climb
Chicago, Illinois February 26, 2006
Overall Results
Place Name Div/Tot Team Name Time
===== ===================== ======== =============== =======
1 Terry Purcell 1/452 9:39 * top male finisher
5 Cindy Harris 1/376 11:10 * top female finisher
282 Steve Kindred 89/452 Fila Windward S 15:57
367 Andy Kucharski 107/452 Fila Windward S 16:28
751 Scot Lara 153/360 Fila Windward S 18:24
958 Ken Antles 236/452 Fila Windward S 19:18
980 Marla Wasserman 92/369 Fila Windward S 19:26
1008 Tomas Hoang 247/452 Fila Windward S 19:34
1474 Wayne Borsheim 328/452 Fila Windward S 22:13
1488 Jennifer Kruprinski 180/376 Fila Windward S 22:17
1609 Jennifer Weiss 204/376 Fila Windward S 23:03
1653 Pam Sfikas 214/376 Fila Windward S 23:24
1712 Linda Tovar 225/376 Fila Windward S 23:58
1735 Jennifer Braasch 229/376 Fila Windward S 24:11
1991 Laura Lara 278/376 Fila Windward S 26:48
2004 Mara Levin 281/376 Fila Windward S 26:58
2244 Morgan Sage 324/376 Fila Windward S 31:48

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Construction has started

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

UPDATE – they finally started tearing our roof off our house. Its still a little hard to believe that after seven months of planning, permit getting and reviewing with the city we finally broke ground and begun construction. My friend Nick, GC, founder and CEO of Exemplary Builders is running with the project. We started removing the roof from our house yesterday.

Planning Details

Since this is a Chicago A-frame building built in 1902 we needed to provide special provisions for fire safety. We will be using all steel materials including steel rafters, two by fours and joists. They actually ended up costing about the same and they are lighter than the wood materials. It works out well for us.

Here is a snapshot of the construction/remodeling of the house prior to the roof tear of demolition:

Day 0:

Chicago a-fram house roof teardown

Day 1
Chicago a-frame house roof tear down - tarping the roof

Day 1.5
No roof

Of course murphys law didnt fail: As soon as you tear down the roof of yuor house it will rain or snow. Prior the roof tear down you will have weeks of consequitve perfet weather. After the new roof is up you will have weeks of perfect weather.

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