It looks like this will be a slow week since our contractor and his brother, who is the onsite project manager, are away in London for a family event. They did take off the forms of the new concrete that was poured last Wednesday. Picture 1 shows the lost wall and Picture 2 shows the […]
More happened at the condo today than on the house construction because the builders wanted a long weekend. I guess the painters are hungrier, since today they began the process of prepping to repaint the inside of the condo. This is not to say that nothing happened at the house. The picture below shows the […]
Happy Thanksgiving! We have been blessed with construction work happening at both the house and our new condo in Irvine. Wednesday, at the condo, one group of workers finished putting down new flooring and we had electricians in for the day to add wiring for lights and ceiling fans and remove switches that were controlling […]
They are on schedule to do the final pour on Wednesday. Today they made progress on the rebar for the final two walls. Picture 1 is the top to the missing wall. Picture 2 is the wall on the steel beam. Picture 3 – Is one that I should have included yesterday. It shows the […]
After the concrete pour on Thursday, the workmen were busy taking down the forms on Friday and beginning the rebar and the forms for the last two second floor walls that will be poured this week. Once these two walls are done, the concrete work on the house proper will be finished! This work took […]
Our structural engineer made a visit to the site this morning. Although he had recommendations for minor repairs to cement work in the apartment, he was content with the way the cement construction had been broken into pieces and the preparations for the walls about to be poured tomorrow and next week. Tomorrow, along with […]
As Picture 1 shows, the framers made great progress on the sub-floor plywood for the second floor. Picture 2 shows the floor from the southeast corner of the green roof. The concrete guys also finished the forms for the next pour. Picture 3 shows the lost wall, Picture 4, the top of the wall where […]
The framers and the concrete guys both made progress today. The concrete guys did the forms for the second side of the board-form wall by the front door. Picture 2 shows the rebar for the missed first floor wall. The large opening in this wall is a passage from the great room to the hallway that […]
The framers did lots of prep work — putting up hangers, cutting beams — so that today they can finish the first floor framing and put down the plywood that will be the subfloor of the second floor. The concrete workers finished the board form lining for the wall by the door. They also began […]
Today the welders were at the house working their magic, the concrete guys kept plugging away, and we discovered a new problem involving a first-floor concrete wall that is needed but was not built. A big part of the confusion is that the walls in question are interior to the house and are not shown […]