Today we were scheduled to have the pre-check meeting with the county inspector at 10AM. Unfortunately, the contractor didn’t ask our civil engineer to attend, and the inspector called off the meeting. According to the contractor, most inspectors don’t require all the people they require to attend to actually attend. So the backhoe guy just […]
The next sub-contractor dropped off a backhoe on Friday in preparation for working on the foundation on Monday. Pete worked on his terrace wall, but he covered all the trees with tarps to keep the sun and the cold off of them, so I didn’t take a picture of it. When the previous guy came […]
There was only one guy there this morning moving the last two concrete piles. When I got there, his Bobcat had stopped working again (same problem yesterday), and Pete had to fix it with his own tools. The guy moved the pile from the house pad and the pile by the garage. There is no […]
Today was a day of clearing out the remaining piles of broken up wood and moving concrete from near the house to where Pete is building his terraces. The first photo shows the whole bit of land that used to contain the house and part of the deck, as well as the patio. The second […]
On Friday, Ted & I went to San Diego for our 3-play weekend. I took a picture Friday morning, but it didn’t really look that much different from Thursday afternoon. I asked the demo guys to fix the water line, which they had broken on Thursday, thus turning off all our irrigation. I believe they […]
By the end of the day almost the whole house was gone. Just the chimney at one end and some framing at the other end. There is a lot of concrete still to remove: walls of the house, the patio, and the floor of the big room, which was once a garage.
Ted & I were both in Irvine until late in the day after the workers had left. Pete, however, was there working on the landscaping for a few hours in the middle of the day. I took these pictures around 4:30. The 2 walls of the garage that were coming down are now down. More […]
The demo team arrived about 7:15 and the contractor arrived around 8:15. It was very exciting. There were about half a dozen guys there with two dump trucks and a bobcat-type machine.One guy started by removing the asphalt shingles and then the underlayment from the roof. In one photo, there is a whole room that has […]
The asbestos people finished up on Friday after removing all the sheetrock with its asbestos-laden drywall mud. So the house is down to its structure. Because they finished a day late, the demolition crew will not come until Tuesday.