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 Saturday it rained. Then late Sunday evening Santa Ana winds started up. These are hot, dry winds that come off the desert. The high wind warnings were for gusts up to 70 mph. This is the time of year that we pray that there will be no fires — the rain Friday certainly helped on that score — and that the power lines will stay up. In that area we lost out. Our power in Modjeska went out about 6:50 Monday morning and was not restored until about 6PM that evening. However, it is not clear that the weather explains why the steel beam and the framers are now not coming until Thursday.
Our house on the UCI campus is tented for termites prior to its sale.
We did, however, manage to resolve one issue that was worrying us. After consulting with the contractor and the structural engineer, a plan was developed to deal with a “cold joint” in the concrete span of wall over one of the windows. (The diagonal line of imperfections in the concrete is shown in the picture below.) This occurred because, when this section of the wall was being poured, the section on the left exhausted the delivery of one truck and the second truck did not arrive for over an hour, so the concrete on the left was already partially set when the concrete on the right was poured. (The trucks are meant to arrive shortly after one another, but the supplier does not always cooperate.) Fortunately, all that is necessary is to remove the “honeycombed” concrete at this joint and then patch the gap with special materials.
