I asked the sheet rock guy how he did this tight radius curve on our stairs. I thought he may have scored the back of the drywall or sprayed it with water to soften it but he said he just ... slowly... pressed it into place. We've had considerable rain in the last week or two and he said the sheet rock has absorbed moisture and that's why it can bend like this without snapping.
Ha! And I thought there couldn't be a silver lining to all this rain!
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Radius
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Sheet rock
Three and a half days of drywall install and they've almost finished the 2800 square foot main floor. After staring at framing for so many months, it's very exciting to see the walls actually starting to look like walls!
We started out with a half dozen guys but today we were down to just two (and they didn't arrive until 10:00 and were long gone when I stopped back by at 4:00 PM). I hope we can persuade our general contractor to assign more men to our job since our promised Christmas move-in date has been pushed out to March 1st and we can't afford to miss that date because we have no place to live after February 27th.
We started out with a half dozen guys but today we were down to just two (and they didn't arrive until 10:00 and were long gone when I stopped back by at 4:00 PM). I hope we can persuade our general contractor to assign more men to our job since our promised Christmas move-in date has been pushed out to March 1st and we can't afford to miss that date because we have no place to live after February 27th.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Insulation
Our first framing inspection was painfully delayed but was finally scheduled for October 29th then it was postponed again for nearly a month but finally happened yesterday. And there's good news at last! We passed!!
Now we can start to move forward again. First stop: Insulation.
They blew this stuff into the walls then scrapped off whatever hanged over the 2x4's. The festive result at the end of day one are these large banks of 'snow' all over the house! :)
Now we can start to move forward again. First stop: Insulation.
They blew this stuff into the walls then scrapped off whatever hanged over the 2x4's. The festive result at the end of day one are these large banks of 'snow' all over the house! :)
A fence and gate like this?
Funny how you go through life casually interacting with hundreds of ordinary things every day. And you never stop for even an extra second to think about the details of any of it.
That's the case with the fence and gate for our new house. Obviously, we'd notice right away if it was constructed out of cardboard and Bubbalicious chewing gum but in just about any other case, we'd be pretty unlikely to notice.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Electric and Gas
We finished digging the trenches for the gas and electric today.
Isn't this weird!? The gas line has been totally enclosed inside the root of our Camphor tree!
UPDATE: Unfortunately, we noticed that PG&E cut this huge root away from their pipe when they connected the gas line. The tree suffered a substantial amount of root damage while the trench for the gas line was being excavated and this is just one more big burden for the tree to overcome. We hope it's strong enough to handle all the stress!
Isn't this weird!? The gas line has been totally enclosed inside the root of our Camphor tree!
UPDATE: Unfortunately, we noticed that PG&E cut this huge root away from their pipe when they connected the gas line. The tree suffered a substantial amount of root damage while the trench for the gas line was being excavated and this is just one more big burden for the tree to overcome. We hope it's strong enough to handle all the stress!
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Pool construction
We're making nice progress on the pool. Should be ready for gunite within a week or so.
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