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 […]
Today they began taking the forms off of the newly poured concrete walls and cleaning up the site in preparation for the work putting up the forms for the slabs that will be the house deck and the roof of the apartment. As the pictures show, they still have a ways to go to complete […]
The concrete all got poured today. Making this happen took an impressive amount of work. Originally the cement trucks had been ordered for 7AM. When it became clear yesterday afternoon that there was still a lot to do, they pushed them back to arrive starting some time between noon and 2. The first truck arrived […]
All the rebar is up. The work passed two inspections this morning. Originally, we were told that they would pour cement starting at 7 tomorrow, then it was noon, and finally it is now 2 PM. The problem is that, although all the rebar and most of the forms are in place, the forms in […]
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.
Yesterday, we thought that we had come to a solution for the problem of raising the height of the apartment ceiling by raising the roof slab to match the height of the deck slab. This morning, however, that solution looked less simple: with the roof slab and the deck slab at the same height, the […]
With the forms for the walls under the deck done, today they made good progress on the forms for the walls of the apartment, shown in Picture 1. However, the real excitement of the day is documented in Picture 2. In the background of this photo, you can see some of the completed forms for […]
Today, they almost finished the framing for the walls supporting the deck and holding in the rainwater bag. You may be able to see some L-shaped rebar pieces extending horizontally into the interior space at the top of the forms. These will eventually be connected into the fabric of rebar that will give strength to […]
Today the work continued on the forms for the walls that will go under the deck that sits between the garage/apartment and the house. Picture 1, may help you to visualize where this is. The right side of the shot shows a wall of the garage — the one along which the stairway to the […]