With the delivery date of the windows and doors approaching, there has been some increased urgency to finish the work on the rough plumbing, wiring, and HVAC that can be done in a structure without doors and windows. Picture 1 shows how the electricians have made progress connecting the wiring into the utility boxes. Having […]
This is the second (of, probably, three) blogs in our catching-up series. Although there was not a lot of new work on the house in the last month while we wait for the windows and doors, there was some. In some ways, the most interesting, because I had never seen it before, was the rough […]
It has been over a month since our last blog post. This reflects in part that work has been proceeding more slowly because the doors and windows will not be delivered until the second week in May — later than we had hoped. Although the rough wiring, plumbing, mechanical and related things can be done […]
We are about to leave for a two week trip to the Pacific. We will spend most of a week with Taylor on the Gold Coast of Australia, southeast of Brisbane, and then, on the way back, we will stop for three days on the beach in Fiji. Although not much has work on the […]
Gentle readers, in your concern you have been inquiring: “Why no blog entries for almost a month?” Here are some possible answers (a) The big one happened and SoCal finally fell into the ocean.(b) It has rained for most of 30 days and 30 nights. (c) The work on the house has mostly been behind […]
There have been a couple of nice days since Tuesday, but the rain is forecast to start again Saturday. In the mean time, they have begun sealing the joints of the lower roof (Picture 1). However, they also need to build framing to create a slope on top of this sheathing with a real water […]
There has not been much to post lately because it has mostly been raining. We had another 4.5″ of rain over the last weekend. Fortunately, Pete was around for much of the time and by digging various strategic channels, like that in Figure 1, help minimize erosion of the slopes that have been graded and […]
It might have been Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but it this was not a holiday for the builders. Picture 1 shows that they completed the last missing piece of the replaced, high roof. The framer in Picture 2 is getting set up to finish the framing for the railing for the stairway to the […]
Nina and I spent all afternoon at the house today measuring elevations in the backyard in preparation for having it graded into terraces. It appears that Pete will bid for and do this job. At some point, the missing section of steel beam in the high roof was welded into place (Picture 1). Everyone tells […]
It rained on Monday; it rained over 1/2 an inch on Tuesday, and so far today, it has rained 1.68 inches. According to our neighbor Michael, it rained buckets for about an hour and a half, but it also rained a lot during the middle of the night. All this rain was enough to send […]