Now that 4th of July is over the building of DaltonSkyGazer observatory has begun. It was a ripe 99F on my thermometer at the house today and extremely humid, it may have been hotter at one point(104.4F in shade hi according to my thermometer). I went to Home Depot early afternoon and picked up the concrete blocks I was going to be using for the observatory framing to rest on. The flooring is Steve Durham’s original design 2 by 8 construction, pressure treated ,with what looks like 3/4 deck. This flooring is very beefy no changes were required. I did have to remove the wooden legs which raised the floor structure up another 17 and 3/4 inches above the ground. I did this so the interior wall height will be taller when I swap same measurement and add it to wall height.
Late afternoon I had a hand and two of us lugged the flooring over to the build site. I leveled the area and then put down black plastic under the observatory area to cut down on moisture infiltration from the ground. I then rough leveled my concrete blocks and put them in place. The floor is in two pieces one side is now finished and leveled. The other side is down but I need a few more blocks and have to complete leveling and attachment of the two pieces in the morning after I pick up lumber for the wall construction. It was very hot weather, but the construction is progressing. I have posted a few pics of the flooring around the pier below. I will try to post updates each of the upcoming days as the DaltonSkyGazer observatory goes up.
DaltonSkyGazer Observatory Floor going down
DaltonSkyGazer Floor for Observatory going in