There was no post yesterday because we were giving a UCI dinner party in Irvine and weren’t out here late enough to take end-of-day pictures, but we also didn’t have time to write anything. In the previous days’ photos, the top of the garage was just metal. Today it has a layer of phenolic plywood […]
The first thing the rebar guys did this morning was to build the header above where the garage door will go. You can see the wooden header with the supports that will hold the forms for the garage ceiling in the front of picture 1. Picture 2 shows the same header from above. Because this […]
There was no post yesterday because the prop heads didn’t arrive, and there was no work for the guys. Today they brought a Bobcat and started working on additional digging in the back behind the garage wall. Then about 9:30, the FedEx truck arrived with the 437 prop heads, and they got to work putting […]
Another disappointing day. The structure company FedExed the props we needed to some other customer and sent us their order. Not building great confidence in the company. So the rebar guys finally took the plywood off the back foundation wall and cleaned out the trench that will be the foundation of the retaining wall between […]
Today was disappointing. Somebody forgot to order a forklift and so the materials to be used to create the structure for the garage ceiling had to be ferried by small truck from the street to the garage and it took two hours. Then it turned out that the truck had only brought 10 props, which […]
Friday was a day of taking down the plywood, spacers, and clamps, used to make the forms for the garage walls, and putting everything away carefully in piles so they can be reused on the next layer of walls. They are only allowed to pour 8 feet high of concrete at a time, so each […]
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 […]