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 […]
Although it drizzled on and off all day, they are continued to install the rebar and build the forms for the garage walls. You cannot see a lot of the progress in the overview shot below, since much of the progress is taking place at a smaller scale. One striking thing is simply how much […]
Although it is unusual for this time of year, May began with about a tenth of inch of rain overnight. Although it would have been great to get more, given that it was going to stop, we were glad that it stopped early enough in the morning that it didn’t affect the work on 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 […]
Today they finished drilling the last holes for what our contractor and engineer call caissons. This word choice seems odd because, according to my dictionary, a caisson is “a large watertight chamber, open at the bottom from which the water is kept out by air pressure and in which construction work may be carried out […]