There have been a couple of nice days since Tuesday, but the rain is forecast to start again Saturday. In the mean time, they have begun sealing the joints of the lower roof (Picture 1). However, they also need to build framing to create a slope on top of this sheathing with a real water […]
There has not been much to post lately because it has mostly been raining. We had another 4.5″ of rain over the last weekend. Fortunately, Pete was around for much of the time and by digging various strategic channels, like that in Figure 1, help minimize erosion of the slopes that have been graded and […]
It might have been Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but it this was not a holiday for the builders. Picture 1 shows that they completed the last missing piece of the replaced, high roof. The framer in Picture 2 is getting set up to finish the framing for the railing for the stairway to the […]
Nina and I spent all afternoon at the house today measuring elevations in the backyard in preparation for having it graded into terraces. It appears that Pete will bid for and do this job. At some point, the missing section of steel beam in the high roof was welded into place (Picture 1). Everyone tells […]
It has been a week since the last blog for a number of reasons. Now that we are living full time 45 minutes from the construction site, it is more difficult to get out there often. In addition, this week Ted was consumed with the Campuswide Honors Program admission process. Finally, it rained some last […]
This morning a new crew cleared away the refuse from the framing and then began digging the trenches needed for the footings for two retaining walls that will extend out from the back wall of the house. Picture 1 shows the work on the west side of the house. The orange lines on the ground […]
Ted’s sister Norie was in the area today so we were able to show her the current state of the house. There were five framers working, but it was hard to see what they had done. Walking through, it appeared that much of what they were doing was adding more blocking between studs or joists […]
As Picture 1 below shows, not a lot happened on the house during the week that we were gone. The different vantage point of this picture helps put the house in the larger perspective of the canyon. The structure just visible on the lower right edge of this picture is the chicken coop. Of course, […]
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 […]