The forecast for Saturday was for showers all day. We didn’t know if we would be able to get much work done.

It rained during the night but stopped in the early morning. It was not raining after breakfast when I went out and began to take down the tarps I had covering the cement (I didn’t want the water running off the roof to make a line in the newly poured driveway). It sprinkled a little bit, but not too bad. We decided to see how the strong wall would fit on the new stem wall. When we carried out the strong wall we realized we had a big problem.
While there is plenty of room for the strong wall to fit under the existing roof (since
the stem wall had been lowered [see previous post]), The roof over hang prevented
us from lifting the strong wall over the bolts in the stem wall. There was no way
we could get it installed. We scrambled for ideas. The one that we sort of settled
on was that we would have to jack up the corner of the garage roof about 5 inches
to clear the bolts. Not a good option, but the best that we had. Since this would
be an amazing hassle, we tossed around other ideas. We finally hit on one that was
brilliant in its simplicity. If you see me or my dad, ask us about our solution. Below
is the strong wall in place with room to spare.