Today, they almost finished the framing for the walls supporting the deck and holding in the rainwater bag. You may be able to see some L-shaped rebar pieces extending horizontally into the interior space at the top of the forms. These will eventually be connected into the fabric of rebar that will give strength to […]
Today the work continued on the forms for the walls that will go under the deck that sits between the garage/apartment and the house. Picture 1, may help you to visualize where this is. The right side of the shot shows a wall of the garage — the one along which the stairway to the […]
Ted & I were both in Irvine most of the day. According to our neighbor, Michael, the steel guys spent a large part of the day measuring. They did get two walls put up behind the garage: the back wall, and one end wall. They have only put up one side of each, however. The […]
This was the day of the big pour — eventually 80+ cubic yards of concrete. By 7 AM the concrete pump truck was set up with its boom in place (Picture 1). Our regular crew was busy with some some last minutes additions: strengthening the wood forms that would contain the concrete on the sides […]
The electrician came and added a pipe or two to the garage roof. The Soils Engineer was here for the first time in a long time, while the contractor used the BobCat to move dirt out of the piles on the house lot to behind the back wall of the house. The dirt had to be tamped […]
I didn’t write anything yesterday because it was just more of the same. And I couldn’t really tell where more steel had appeared in the photos. There is so much rebar everywhere already that a bit more is hard to discern. Today I found out that Monday’s inspector failed us because they hadn’t yet put […]
The wire guys worked all day Saturday and got most of the garage roof done. The contractor thought that the part that was needed for the inspection was done, but the inspector disagreed, and so the cement pour scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until Thursday. (Apparently the six County inspectors are assigned somewhat randomly […]
It rained yesterday morning and the workers went somewhere else, but today dawned sunny and nice. They spent the day on the garage roof laying more rebar and wiring it together. It is not quite done yet, but you can really get a sense of its full complexity in Picture 1. They also worked on […]