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 […]
It was election day and work continued. Picture 1 shows the finished rebar and framing of the north and west walls. Picture 2 is an interesting shot into the framed west wall, showing the rebar and the cross ties that hold the forms together. Picture 3 shows the start of the work on the wall […]
No posts since last Wednesday as we have both been busy in Irvine for many of the intervening days. A week ago Friday (October 26th), the sale of our house at UCI closed and our purchase of a smaller two-bedroom condo at UCI also closed. Although we will not take possession of the condo until […]
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 […]