Rubb, Inc. New Welding Shop Construction – Week 7

This week the construction crew dropped five sheets of the building’s PVC membrane cladding. The process is fairly straightforward, although not for those with fear of heights! First, the rolls of PVC are unrolled down the length of the building, then attached with hardware to a tube that runs along the ridge. This secures the sheet in place at the top. A tube is inserted in a pocket at the base of the sheet, and ropes are run down the outside of the structure and pulled with a forklift from below. This pulls the sheet down over the outside of the building in one quick operation. The base of the sheet is then attached to the foundation with tensioning hardware and pulled tight.

In Tuesday’s video, you can see that two sheets on the far side of the building are already in place from Monday. An additional sheet is pulled down on the far side in the morning, and two more on the near side are tensioned in the afternoon. The camera lens is also visited by a bee in the middle of the day. Later on we see a passing shower after work hours, and finally a sunset finishes the day.