It has been a week since the last blog for a number of reasons. Now that we are living full time 45 minutes from the construction site, it is more difficult to get out there often. In addition, this week Ted was consumed with the Campuswide Honors Program admission process. Finally, it rained some last […]
This morning a new crew cleared away the refuse from the framing and then began digging the trenches needed for the footings for two retaining walls that will extend out from the back wall of the house. Picture 1 shows the work on the west side of the house. The orange lines on the ground […]
Ted’s sister Norie was in the area today so we were able to show her the current state of the house. There were five framers working, but it was hard to see what they had done. Walking through, it appeared that much of what they were doing was adding more blocking between studs or joists […]
As Picture 1 below shows, not a lot happened on the house during the week that we were gone. The different vantage point of this picture helps put the house in the larger perspective of the canyon. The structure just visible on the lower right edge of this picture is the chicken coop. Of course, […]
They finished the structural steel for the high roof on Thursday. Today the framers put the sheathing on the lower roof and added a wooden beam to the structure for the high-roof. You can see this work just starting in Picture 1, which was taken Friday morning, and completed in Picture 2, which was taken […]
This will be the last post for a week, since we leave for Austin tomorrow. It is not clear to us how much of a holiday the builders will take, so there may not be much to document anyway. Today, however, they did most of the framing work for the high roof. This is something […]
We have been pushing hard to move out of the rented house in Modjeska Canyon and finish the upgrades to the Irvine condo. Between that and the papers that Ted had to get graded so that he could submit grades by 5PM Thursday — they were in at 4:28 — there has not been much […]
When Ted was growing up the tradition was that we waited to decorate for Christmas until December 15th. Although it was not quite the same, Picture 1 shows the exciting addition to the house today was the roughed-in stair from the great room to the second floor. Picture shows what we hope that this will […]
As Picture 1 shows, a substantial portion of the second-floor, wood framing is now complete. There is still a section in the middle that has not been done, however. (This is the area with some lengths of lumber just laid across it.) This will be the “high-roof.” It is high to accommodate a set of […]
Note: The blog post for Monday, which is below, did not get posted in time to get distributed Monday, so there is an addendum for Tuesday at the end. After a few days with little happening because our contractor had been away for a week and we had several days of rain, finally there was […]