Nothing happened last week. No point in recounting the many reasons that steel day was postponed, but it happened today and it was quite a show. This is a story that we will tell in pictures and their captions.
Over the weekend, the house that we are selling on the UCI campus was tented to ensure that there are no termites. We close on the sale of this house a week from Friday. Otherwise, not much has been happening – sigh. This may in part have been due to the weather. Friday night into […]
On Wednesday, the concrete trucks came and poured all the walls that were framed for pouring. We had an appointment with the designer who is helping us with plans for the interior, so we were unable to come watch. There wasn’t any point in posting any photos last night–since forms with concrete in them look […]
You would think that since the movers came and took everything away on Thursday, there would be nothing left to do at the Irvine house. But we spent much of Saturday and Sunday afternoon there finding stuff hidden in back corners or cabinets and trying to freecycle furniture we no longer need. Although we weren’t […]
I see that there have been no blog entries for almost a week. Partly this is just because the construction of concrete forms for walls is finally beginning to seem somewhat routine. Another reason that we have not been posting much is that we have been in Irvine most of this week working frantically to […]
The framers were meant to come on Friday to cover the insulation with sheathing. They showed up on Saturday, as we are under the threat of rain from hurricane Rosa. On Friday, the rain was forecast to start as early as Sunday night, but now we will be lucky to get much, if any rain, […]
We have been busy packing up our house in Irvine that we are selling now, even though the new house will not be done until next summer, so we have missed a few days of blog entries. In addition to working on the wall on the west side of the great room, they have also […]
Over the last two days they finished removing the outside forms from the walls that they poured 10 days ago, they have started putting up the rest of the forms for the first floor walls, and the plumbers have begun running the waste lines in the crawl space.
Today the framers came back and put up all the joists for the part of the house that has the crawlspace under it.
Nina was at yoga this morning when several of the neighbors told her that “a lot of lumber was delivered to your house this morning.” It was true. There is hardly room by the house for it all. But they didn’t just get lumber delivered. Picture 3 shows that they put up all of the […]