Yesterday, they hauled in the final sand that was needed for the great room and put down the rebar for the slab. They still need to put in wiring to three receptacles that will be in the great room floor. The plan is to get this and the slab for the garage inspected tomorrow and […]
The pace of progress was slower today, but some important things were done. Below you can see that they fixed the problem of the short posts. They did this by welding in new, short segments of post. If you look carefully at the post on the right, you can see that the area is redder […]
Yesterday, in addition to the steel, there were two other crews working on the house, two starting the framing of the first floor, and the concrete guys, who were working on some repairs. However, since there were so many pictures showing the steel work, we decided to hold off on posting the pictures of this […]
Nothing happened last week. No point in recounting the many reasons that steel day was postponed, but it happened today and it was quite a show. This is a story that we will tell in pictures and their captions.
Over the weekend, the house that we are selling on the UCI campus was tented to ensure that there are no termites. We close on the sale of this house a week from Friday. Otherwise, not much has been happening – sigh. This may in part have been due to the weather. Friday night into […]
I see that there have been no blog entries for almost a week. Partly this is just because the construction of concrete forms for walls is finally beginning to seem somewhat routine. Another reason that we have not been posting much is that we have been in Irvine most of this week working frantically to […]
We have been busy packing up our house in Irvine that we are selling now, even though the new house will not be done until next summer, so we have missed a few days of blog entries. In addition to working on the wall on the west side of the great room, they have also […]
Over the last two days they finished removing the outside forms from the walls that they poured 10 days ago, they have started putting up the rest of the forms for the first floor walls, and the plumbers have begun running the waste lines in the crawl space.
Nina was at yoga this morning when several of the neighbors told her that “a lot of lumber was delivered to your house this morning.” It was true. There is hardly room by the house for it all. But they didn’t just get lumber delivered. Picture 3 shows that they put up all of the […]
Since our last post they reworked the blue duct some and have installed the connectors for the floor vents that will be in the great room. Picture 1 shows one of the four of these assemblies. The box on the top of this assembly will extend higher than the floor and, I believe will eventually […]