Friday was a day of taking down the plywood, spacers, and clamps, used to make the forms for the garage walls, and putting everything away carefully in piles so they can be reused on the next layer of walls. They are only allowed to pour 8 feet high of concrete at a time, so each […]
Well, the first cement truck didn’t arrive until 12:40, so there was a lot of waiting around this morning. It turns out because we are not starting any noisy activities until after 8:00 AM, in deference to the neighbors, that when we order the cement truck for 9 AM, we really only get trucks that have […]
Today the inspector came and approved the forms that have been built. So tomorrow the cement truck will come again. This is a photo of the end of the back house wall. It was not finished when the inspector came, and I asked the contractor how he could approve it before all the plywood was […]
There was a lot more of the same today. More rebar and more plywood, but this time it is making a big difference. The first picture is a view from roughly the same position as in most of these garage pictures. You can, with some effort, see two new things in this picture. First, if you […]
We haven’t written since last Wednesday because it was just more of the same each day, including Saturday. More rebar, more plywood, building the forms for the garage walls and now also some of the back wall of the house. The contractor wants to get it inspected on Wednesday and pour cement on Thursday. The […]
Although it drizzled on and off all day, they are continued to install the rebar and build the forms for the garage walls. You cannot see a lot of the progress in the overview shot below, since much of the progress is taking place at a smaller scale. One striking thing is simply how much […]
Although it is unusual for this time of year, May began with about a tenth of inch of rain overnight. Although it would have been great to get more, given that it was going to stop, we were glad that it stopped early enough in the morning that it didn’t affect the work on the […]
Today it was just the rebar guys. They took out the 2 x 4s you could see in the garage cement in yesterday’s photo and put vertical rebar into the cavities to support the walls to come. The contractor hopes to pour the concrete for the first 8′ the walls of the garage apartment on […]