Water and gas lines trenched and laid last week. From the street: Into the yard: The lines direct both to the house and to the back yard behind the pool house. The yellow line on the left is the one running to the pool house and is bigger (4 inch line) than the one runningRead more about Water and gas[…]
Drywall is going in rapidly. They are now almost done putting up the drywall on the first floor. Here is our living room. They have installed all the corner bead on the second floor and have started taping and mudding the joints. We have a tentative date of November 20th for the first cabinets toRead more about Drywall update[…]
Because our design includes a “skirt” or flare from the second story to the first, it is impractical to run downspouts down the side of the house on some places as they will have to divert around the flare; it just looks like an afterthought when downspouts do that. For example, here is one ofRead more about The details – leader heads and cow’s tongues[…]
I must admit I do have a little leg up on the average person when it comes to counter tops, as I briefly ran a stone fabrication business about a decade ago. Knowing nothing about stone fabrication at the time, I took it over and tried to stabilize it until we eventually sold the business. Read more about Stone choices[…]
Columns are a signature craftsman style element, and there are lots of different types that are used in craftsman homes. If you search Google images for “craftsman columns exterior” you’ll see what I mean. Most of the time, they are made out of wood. However, because they are exterior columns, and would likely have miteredRead more about Porch columns[…]
We started with a crew of 2-3 guys for the first week or so. Now they have pulled in additional people and we have 5-6 guys working on the drywall. The entire second floor is almost done and they are installing the scaffolding to do the upper stairwell ceiling and walls. Here is the masterRead more about Drywall update – second floor is almost complete[…]
Now that we have low and high voltage utilities connected to the power pole, the next step is trenching for water and gas, and to run utilities out to our pool house. For starters, take a look at the point at which the utilities go into our house. Holy cow! There are the four linesRead more about Whole-lotta trenching going on[…]
We started the work to run the utilities from the pole at the street to our demarcation point at the side of the garage, where the main electrical panel and the low voltage panels are. Any new construction or significant remodel requires under grounding of the utilities from the pole to the house. There isRead more about Connecting the house utilities[…]
Take a look at this cross section of our wall structure from our structural engineer. Like most everything in our house, and that is requited by code, this new wall that we are building along our property line with our neighbors will be veritably bomb-proof. And it needs to be pretty beefy as in additionRead more about How to build a wall[…]
Now the the insulation is (almost) complete, the drywall process has started. First step in preparation was to remove all the doors so they don’t get damaged. Each door had to be marked for location and for pocket doors, which side it goes on. Now the drywall goes up. For the first time since weRead more about Drywall[…]