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 […]
We were supposed to arrive at the airport at 3PM, pick up the dog and head out to Modjeska to see for ourselves the work being done. But United had problems, and we were lucky to arrive back at 6:30PM. So once again, we have photos from Michael Relyea. In picture 1, you can see […]
We were in Chicago today, finishing a visit with Haywood and Curtis, but, after the Memorial Day holiday, the work continued. Last week they applied a thick layer of a bitumen-based coating. Today it was finally dry enough that they could follow that up with a waterproofing fabric. Picture 1 shows this being applied to […]
The sun came out off and on this morning and finally out to stay this afternoon. So the guys were back working. The sales guy from the scaffolding rental place was there trying to get the final ceiling triangle parts delivered. This morning they washed off the top of the garage and then swept it dry, but […]
There was more rain and no work. This is unusual for May, at least in the old days.