Author Archives: Nina Macdonald

Thursday, September 19, 2018

Today the framers came back and put up all the joists for the part of the house that has the crawlspace under it.

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Monday, August 27, 2018

The steel guys were there today. They almost finished putting up the second side of the form for the back wall of the house above the retaining wall. They also have framed in the back door that leads outside from the kitchen. There are two more house walls that need a second layer of plywood […]

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Thursday, August 23, 2018

The steel guys did show up today, but they didn’t work on the house framing.  Instead, they started removing the scaffolding from under the lower deck, which is cantilevered.  They kept the scaffolding supporting it for almost a month to give the concrete time to really dry.  The scaffolding was screwed together, and it is […]

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August 15- August 22- no work

After the first work on the house walls, the workers went off to work elsewhere.  They are scheduled to come back on Thursday to finish the plywood surrounds for the walls prior to a concrete pour on next Monday.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The workers didn’t come yesterday, but they came today and started building the framing for the part of the house with a crawl space under it. Apparently, they will be slowing down work while they wait for the blue duct to arrive.  They don’t want to pour the walls until the blue ducting is in […]

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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Today there were only two guys there.  First they moved all the stuff off the main deck onto the garage roof to get it out of the way.    Then they swept the deck. There was only vertical rebar around the deck before, but they started adding long pieces east to west. They had to […]

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Monday-Tuesday, July 23-24, 2018

It has just been the steel guys for the last two days. They are trying to get ready for the inspectors on Thursday and the next cemnt pour on Friday. The backhoe and bobcat are still at the house, but there doesn’t seem to be anything for them to do and their operators have not […]

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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The backhoe driver was otherwise engaged today, but he will be back tomorrow and Friday to finish up the digging of the house foundation and, we hope, the area out by the street. The steel guys were busy today.  They completed the rebar for the area next to the apartment door. Yesterday, the area to […]

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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Today the bobcat arrived and they were able to move the blocks which held up the hill next to the garage to a spot on the side of the road that goes to the upper part of the property. We will save these to use to edge garden beds. The first picture is a photo […]

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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Unfortunately, the post for Monday touting the new roof was saved as a page rather than a post, so it was not sent out to the email subscribers, nor was it shown other than as a menu item at the top of the screen.  It has been switched, but whether it will be emailed out […]

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