Dec

Unloading Three Truckloads of SIPs

Our SIPs arrived today! Right on schedule, as promised. We completed pouring the concrete in the lower level yesterday and our SIPs are on site today.

Unloading Our SIPs

The three trucks arrived on time this morning. And, our crane was there too. Dave Edwards and his team from Earth Bound Homes were on site to unload and start staging the SIPs.

The SIPs are loaded on the trucks in the most efficient manner for shipping, which is not the order they will be installed/erected in. Each panel has a unique number that correspond to the layout plans. Insulspan labels each panel on all sides so they are easy to identify.

Although Insulspan sends laminated plastic layout plans, we used our physical model to understand where the panels went in the structure and Dave directed the panels to be stages in the reverse order of how the house will be built. That is, the last panels used are at the bottom of the stacks.

The crane could reach to the very back of our property, just! It was interesting to see how easy the panels could move around when sliding on other panels. In general two people could lift and slide most of the panels, with three or four people required to lift the largest panels.

We unloaded the three trucks and staged the panels in approximatedly four hours. Dave was pleased with how smoothly the unloading went. His team worked quickly, efficiently and safely.

And the concrete we poured yesterday looks fabulous.

Truck #1 arrives at Via Sereno as scheduled. Way cool ...

Truck #2 in waiting on Winchester Boulevard.

And, truck #3 pulls up on Winchester. The other trucks have removed their tarps - the tarp is still on this truck.

The crane is taking the first SIPs off the first truck. Yippee!

The first load being moved onto our property.

Another load of SIPs coming in.

And, another load. We need to sort the panels and stage them in the appropriate order.

You can see the SIPs are starting to stack up on our site.

Another beautiful, blue-sky California day. Perfect for unloading SIPs!

Our SIPs are stacking up nicely.

More SIPs coming onto the site ...

View from the back of the property (on top of the SIPs).

SIPs stacked in front of our temporary site office window.

SIPs with temporary blocking in to protect the OSB flanges.

The piles are getting denser ...

SIPs at the front of the property.

The first load of SIPs that came off the first truck are sitting on the stump where our underground CUDO cistern will go. These SIPs have to be moved to a different location.