Well, the first cement truck didn’t arrive until 12:40, so there was a lot of waiting around this morning. It turns out because we are not starting any noisy activities until after 8:00 AM, in deference to the neighbors, that when we order the cement truck for 9 AM, we really only get trucks that have […]
Today the inspector came and approved the forms that have been built. So tomorrow the cement truck will come again. This is a photo of the end of the back house wall. It was not finished when the inspector came, and I asked the contractor how he could approve it before all the plywood was […]
There was a lot more of the same today. More rebar and more plywood, but this time it is making a big difference. The first picture is a view from roughly the same position as in most of these garage pictures. You can, with some effort, see two new things in this picture. First, if you […]
We haven’t written since last Wednesday because it was just more of the same each day, including Saturday. More rebar, more plywood, building the forms for the garage walls and now also some of the back wall of the house. The contractor wants to get it inspected on Wednesday and pour cement on Thursday. The […]
Today it was just the rebar guys. They took out the 2 x 4s you could see in the garage cement in yesterday’s photo and put vertical rebar into the cavities to support the walls to come. The contractor hopes to pour the concrete for the first 8′ the walls of the garage apartment on […]
The contractor ordered 5 cement trucks to come one after another starting at 9AM. He figured he’d be out of there by 11. I came by at 9AM and the boom truck was there but no cement truck, so everyone was just waiting. When I came back at 11:15, the second truck was just leaving and […]
The most important thing that happened on Wednesday was that the Building Inspector and the Grading Inspector, who arrived at the same time, approved the work done so far. This means that the cement truck can come on Friday. Thursday will be a quiet day.
The workers were at the building site late today, trying to get all the steel for the foundation finished so that it can be inspected tomorrow. Assuming this passes, they will pour the concrete on Thursday or Friday. One task was to put rebar cages and posts in smaller holes for what will be concrete […]
We went over to the property this morning to meet the electrician and the plumber with the contractor. We spent a lot of time worrying about where to put the entrance for the electrical service (and the meter), but the length of the wires from the solar panels dictated the back of the house. The wire […]
I arrived at the property about 7:30 AM to see a big pile of I-beams in the front yard. A very long transport truck had just dropped off a machine, which is not a crane, but can function as one for what was needed here. It could lift the rebar cages and also the rebar cages […]