The guys didn’t work on Tuesday. We were given no explanation. They resumed putting up scaffolding on the garage on Wednesday and finished the front. They also cleaned up other areas, including the cavity that will hold the water bag and stacked much of the material for the forms that came from the apartment and […]
The workers finished removing the remaining scaffolding from the garage (except for some of the posts) and made good progress using the pieces to build the ceiling of the apartment. As you can see, most of the apartment ceiling scaffolding is now up.
On Friday, the workers worked hard to get the apartment cleaned up for our interior designer to see the space around lunch time. The first picture shows the entry door into the apartment. The second shows the interior of the living room. On Saturday, a smaller crew arrived to start taking down the forms holding […]
The workers were working late today trying to get the forms finished before the inspection tomorrow. They have a bit more to do in the apartment still. No new pictures–looks pretty much like Friday. If the inspector passes it, we should have a new cement pour on Wednesday.
Ted & I were both in Irvine most of the day. According to our neighbor, Michael, the steel guys spent a large part of the day measuring. They did get two walls put up behind the garage: the back wall, and one end wall. They have only put up one side of each, however. The […]
This was the day of the big pour — eventually 80+ cubic yards of concrete. By 7 AM the concrete pump truck was set up with its boom in place (Picture 1). Our regular crew was busy with some some last minutes additions: strengthening the wood forms that would contain the concrete on the sides […]
The electrician came and added a pipe or two to the garage roof. The Soils Engineer was here for the first time in a long time, while the contractor used the BobCat to move dirt out of the piles on the house lot to behind the back wall of the house. The dirt had to be tamped […]
I didn’t write anything yesterday because it was just more of the same. And I couldn’t really tell where more steel had appeared in the photos. There is so much rebar everywhere already that a bit more is hard to discern. Today I found out that Monday’s inspector failed us because they hadn’t yet put […]
The wire guys worked all day Saturday and got most of the garage roof done. The contractor thought that the part that was needed for the inspection was done, but the inspector disagreed, and so the cement pour scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until Thursday. (Apparently the six County inspectors are assigned somewhat randomly […]
It rained yesterday morning and the workers went somewhere else, but today dawned sunny and nice. They spent the day on the garage roof laying more rebar and wiring it together. It is not quite done yet, but you can really get a sense of its full complexity in Picture 1. They also worked on […]