Today there were only two guys there. First they moved all the stuff off the main deck onto the garage roof to get it out of the way. Then they swept the deck. There was only vertical rebar around the deck before, but they started adding long pieces east to west. They had to […]
They are trying to get ready to pour the upper deck and the walls around the crawl space of the house on Friday or Monday. Picture 1 shows the forms for the last section of the deck wall and the decking for the upper deck. The wood frame is for a low door that will […]
There are a lot of pictures in today’s post because a number of interesting things happened on both Friday and Saturday. The big pour on Friday was similar in some ways to the previous 4, but also, because they were working on the deck and house, different in interesting ways. Taylor is here from Australia, […]
The steel for the deck and the footings for the house passed inspection today, so we are all set to pour concrete tomorrow. There were many small things done today, some related to the concrete pour and some not. Picture 1 shows the completed rebar for the lower deck. You can also see the plywood […]
After all the time it took to get the deck ready to be poured, the rebar for the foundation of the part of the house over the crawl space went in quickly. Below are two pictures of that. The first is from above the house to the west. The second is from the driveway, east […]
It has just been the steel guys for the last two days. They are trying to get ready for the inspectors on Thursday and the next cemnt pour on Friday. The backhoe and bobcat are still at the house, but there doesn’t seem to be anything for them to do and their operators have not […]
Another day of work on the deck, the final digging of footings for the foundation, and putting the resulting dirt on the slope by the garage. Picture 1 shows the scaffolding for the lower part of the deck under the oak tree. Picture 2 shows the new rebar work on the deck itself. Picture 3 […]
The backhoe operator was back today and there was lots of progress that is visible in Picture 1. This shows the part of the house that will be over the crawl space. In the back right, you can see a part of the large retaining wall that they poured weeks ago. Extending from it are […]
The backhoe driver was otherwise engaged today, but he will be back tomorrow and Friday to finish up the digging of the house foundation and, we hope, the area out by the street. The steel guys were busy today. They completed the rebar for the area next to the apartment door. Yesterday, the area to […]
The grading for the steps running up along the garage is done. As you can see in Picture 1, you can now walk up (albeit on a step dirt slope) to the doorway. Nina seemed excited to be able to walk into the apartment this way rather than having to climb a ladder to the […]