Today the welders were at the house working their magic, the concrete guys kept plugging away, and we discovered a new problem involving a first-floor concrete wall that is needed but was not built. A big part of the confusion is that the walls in question are interior to the house and are not shown […]
It was election day and work continued. Picture 1 shows the finished rebar and framing of the north and west walls. Picture 2 is an interesting shot into the framed west wall, showing the rebar and the cross ties that hold the forms together. Picture 3 shows the start of the work on the wall […]
No posts since last Wednesday as we have both been busy in Irvine for many of the intervening days. A week ago Friday (October 26th), the sale of our house at UCI closed and our purchase of a smaller two-bedroom condo at UCI also closed. Although we will not take possession of the condo until […]
The Modjeska witches and goblins must have scared the wood framers away, but today the steel and concrete guys were hard at work. As shown in Picture 1, the concrete guys put up scaffolding outside of the house and began to use it to build the forms for the second floor concrete walls. Once the […]
The framers were out in force today. As the first four pictures show, they finished all of the stud walls and about two-thirds of the joists that will support the second floor. The last picture shows some of the natural beauty that makes this place so special.
Today a lot of work got done, but it was sort of a crazy day. One of the big goals was to pour the slab in the garage and the slab in the great room. Picture 1 shows the slab in the garage as it is being smoothed. You can see how this has an […]
Progress today was all focused on what needs to be finished to pour concrete on Monday. Picture 1 shows the slab for the great room. The only this that was done for this today was to add the conduit and boxes for the receptacles that will be in the floor. Picture 2 shows the rebar […]
Yesterday, they hauled in the final sand that was needed for the great room and put down the rebar for the slab. They still need to put in wiring to three receptacles that will be in the great room floor. The plan is to get this and the slab for the garage inspected tomorrow and […]
The pace of progress was slower today, but some important things were done. Below you can see that they fixed the problem of the short posts. They did this by welding in new, short segments of post. If you look carefully at the post on the right, you can see that the area is redder […]
Yesterday, in addition to the steel, there were two other crews working on the house, two starting the framing of the first floor, and the concrete guys, who were working on some repairs. However, since there were so many pictures showing the steel work, we decided to hold off on posting the pictures of this […]