The Modjeska witches and goblins must have scared the wood framers away, but today the steel and concrete guys were hard at work. As shown in Picture 1, the concrete guys put up scaffolding outside of the house and began to use it to build the forms for the second floor concrete walls. Once the […]
The framers were out in force today. As the first four pictures show, they finished all of the stud walls and about two-thirds of the joists that will support the second floor. The last picture shows some of the natural beauty that makes this place so special.
Today a lot of work got done, but it was sort of a crazy day. One of the big goals was to pour the slab in the garage and the slab in the great room. Picture 1 shows the slab in the garage as it is being smoothed. You can see how this has an […]
Progress today was all focused on what needs to be finished to pour concrete on Monday. Picture 1 shows the slab for the great room. The only this that was done for this today was to add the conduit and boxes for the receptacles that will be in the floor. Picture 2 shows the rebar […]
Yesterday, they hauled in the final sand that was needed for the great room and put down the rebar for the slab. They still need to put in wiring to three receptacles that will be in the great room floor. The plan is to get this and the slab for the garage inspected tomorrow and […]
The pace of progress was slower today, but some important things were done. Below you can see that they fixed the problem of the short posts. They did this by welding in new, short segments of post. If you look carefully at the post on the right, you can see that the area is redder […]
Yesterday, in addition to the steel, there were two other crews working on the house, two starting the framing of the first floor, and the concrete guys, who were working on some repairs. However, since there were so many pictures showing the steel work, we decided to hold off on posting the pictures of this […]
Nothing happened last week. No point in recounting the many reasons that steel day was postponed, but it happened today and it was quite a show. This is a story that we will tell in pictures and their captions.
Over the weekend, the house that we are selling on the UCI campus was tented to ensure that there are no termites. We close on the sale of this house a week from Friday. Otherwise, not much has been happening – sigh. This may in part have been due to the weather. Friday night into […]
On Wednesday, the concrete trucks came and poured all the walls that were framed for pouring. We had an appointment with the designer who is helping us with plans for the interior, so we were unable to come watch. There wasn’t any point in posting any photos last night–since forms with concrete in them look […]