We were supposed to arrive at the airport at 3PM, pick up the dog and head out to Modjeska to see for ourselves the work being done. But United had problems, and we were lucky to arrive back at 6:30PM. So once again, we have photos from Michael Relyea. In picture 1, you can see […]
We were in Chicago today, finishing a visit with Haywood and Curtis, but, after the Memorial Day holiday, the work continued. Last week they applied a thick layer of a bitumen-based coating. Today it was finally dry enough that they could follow that up with a waterproofing fabric. Picture 1 shows this being applied to […]
The sun came out off and on this morning and finally out to stay this afternoon. So the guys were back working. The sales guy from the scaffolding rental place was there trying to get the final ceiling triangle parts delivered. This morning they washed off the top of the garage and then swept it dry, but […]
There was more rain and no work. This is unusual for May, at least in the old days.
There was no post yesterday because we were giving a UCI dinner party in Irvine and weren’t out here late enough to take end-of-day pictures, but we also didn’t have time to write anything. In the previous days’ photos, the top of the garage was just metal. Today it has a layer of phenolic plywood […]
The first thing the rebar guys did this morning was to build the header above where the garage door will go. You can see the wooden header with the supports that will hold the forms for the garage ceiling in the front of picture 1. Picture 2 shows the same header from above. Because this […]
There was no post yesterday because the prop heads didn’t arrive, and there was no work for the guys. Today they brought a Bobcat and started working on additional digging in the back behind the garage wall. Then about 9:30, the FedEx truck arrived with the 437 prop heads, and they got to work putting […]
Another disappointing day. The structure company FedExed the props we needed to some other customer and sent us their order. Not building great confidence in the company. So the rebar guys finally took the plywood off the back foundation wall and cleaned out the trench that will be the foundation of the retaining wall between […]
Today was disappointing. Somebody forgot to order a forklift and so the materials to be used to create the structure for the garage ceiling had to be ferried by small truck from the street to the garage and it took two hours. Then it turned out that the truck had only brought 10 props, which […]