They finished the structural steel for the high roof on Thursday. Today the framers put the sheathing on the lower roof and added a wooden beam to the structure for the high-roof. You can see this work just starting in Picture 1, which was taken Friday morning, and completed in Picture 2, which was taken […]
This will be the last post for a week, since we leave for Austin tomorrow. It is not clear to us how much of a holiday the builders will take, so there may not be much to document anyway. Today, however, they did most of the framing work for the high roof. This is something […]
We have been pushing hard to move out of the rented house in Modjeska Canyon and finish the upgrades to the Irvine condo. Between that and the papers that Ted had to get graded so that he could submit grades by 5PM Thursday — they were in at 4:28 — there has not been much […]
When Ted was growing up the tradition was that we waited to decorate for Christmas until December 15th. Although it was not quite the same, Picture 1 shows the exciting addition to the house today was the roughed-in stair from the great room to the second floor. Picture shows what we hope that this will […]
As Picture 1 shows, a substantial portion of the second-floor, wood framing is now complete. There is still a section in the middle that has not been done, however. (This is the area with some lengths of lumber just laid across it.) This will be the “high-roof.” It is high to accommodate a set of […]
Note: The blog post for Monday, which is below, did not get posted in time to get distributed Monday, so there is an addendum for Tuesday at the end. After a few days with little happening because our contractor had been away for a week and we had several days of rain, finally there was […]
As we expected, not much happened on the house since last Monday’s post. Between the general contractor being out of town all week and the two inches of much needed rain that we got on Thursday, only Avi, who does concrete work, and one of his assistants was here at all. The main new thing […]