I have not kept up-to-date this last week due to too many other things to do, and how many pictures of dirt fields do you want to look at? Last week they finished digging out, removing rocks, and compacting down the house foundation area. Around all the edges, were the rocks they hauled out. Here […]
At lunchtime, the pit was considerable deeper than the picture below shows. I didn’t take a picture, and by evening, it had been filled in and compacted under the watchful eye of the soils technician.Meanwhile, Pete was busy building a wall out of concrete pieces that will support an additional gabion in the western gully. […]
I went up to the house about 1PM and there was a large hole in the area where the house will be. The dirt has to be dug out to 3 feet deep with all wood and rocks bigger than 6 inches removed, and then the dirt has to be put back and compacted. The area […]
Well, the second version of the Pre-check meeting on Thursday went off without a hitch. The inspector lectured us for half an hour, gave us a long typed message about grading rules, and left. Since it was going to rain on Friday, any digging work was delayed until Monday.
Today we were scheduled to have the pre-check meeting with the county inspector at 10AM. Unfortunately, the contractor didn’t ask our civil engineer to attend, and the inspector called off the meeting. According to the contractor, most inspectors don’t require all the people they require to attend to actually attend. So the backhoe guy just […]
The next sub-contractor dropped off a backhoe on Friday in preparation for working on the foundation on Monday. Pete worked on his terrace wall, but he covered all the trees with tarps to keep the sun and the cold off of them, so I didn’t take a picture of it. When the previous guy came […]
There was only one guy there this morning moving the last two concrete piles. When I got there, his Bobcat had stopped working again (same problem yesterday), and Pete had to fix it with his own tools. The guy moved the pile from the house pad and the pile by the garage. There is no […]
Today was a day of clearing out the remaining piles of broken up wood and moving concrete from near the house to where Pete is building his terraces. The first photo shows the whole bit of land that used to contain the house and part of the deck, as well as the patio. The second […]
On Friday, Ted & I went to San Diego for our 3-play weekend. I took a picture Friday morning, but it didn’t really look that much different from Thursday afternoon. I asked the demo guys to fix the water line, which they had broken on Thursday, thus turning off all our irrigation. I believe they […]
By the end of the day almost the whole house was gone. Just the chimney at one end and some framing at the other end. There is a lot of concrete still to remove: walls of the house, the patio, and the floor of the big room, which was once a garage.