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 […]
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 […]