They finished putting in the blue duct today. Oddly, although there were three extra lengths of duct, a number of big fittings, and other pieces, they found that they are short some adapters that they need to connect to the floor vents. Hopefully, these will come quicker than the first order, which took 6 weeks […]
I see that this is the first post in September. That is because the contractor was away on a family vacation last week and so the work just started up again today with placement of the blue duct. Today they installed the trunk that will serve the great room (Picture 1). This runs from the […]
This was the day of the seventh (and possibly the penultimate) concrete pour. However, several other notable things happened today. The blue duct was delivered. As you can see in Picture 1, it lives up to its name! This is a special, extruded plastic duct, that can be buried or run under the slab without […]
This week they have been finishing the rebar and putting up the forms for the first floor walls at the back part of the house, the part that will eventually be two stories. They will pour these walls Friday morning. Next week, the framers will come in and build the floor of the second floor, […]
Yesterday a full crew worked on the forms for the walls on the parts of the house that will be two stories. Today, a smaller crew was back for the morning to finish removing the scaffolding from under the deck. Pictures 1 and 2 show forms and rebar for the two-story walls on the north […]
We have been away from Modjeska at Haywood’s wedding — it was amazing, but that is another story — and then on vacation with Haywood, Curtis, Taylor, and Matt at Jackson Hole — this has been lots of fun, but also another story. While we have been away, the builders did the sixth concrete pour […]
They are trying to get ready to pour the upper deck and the walls around the crawl space of the house on Friday or Monday. Picture 1 shows the forms for the last section of the deck wall and the decking for the upper deck. The wood frame is for a low door that will […]
There are a lot of pictures in today’s post because a number of interesting things happened on both Friday and Saturday. The big pour on Friday was similar in some ways to the previous 4, but also, because they were working on the deck and house, different in interesting ways. Taylor is here from Australia, […]
The steel for the deck and the footings for the house passed inspection today, so we are all set to pour concrete tomorrow. There were many small things done today, some related to the concrete pour and some not. Picture 1 shows the completed rebar for the lower deck. You can also see the plywood […]
After all the time it took to get the deck ready to be poured, the rebar for the foundation of the part of the house over the crawl space went in quickly. Below are two pictures of that. The first is from above the house to the west. The second is from the driveway, east […]