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[…]
Other than a few small areas, the insulation is nearly complete, and passed inspection a couple of days ago. We are using post-consumer recycled fiberglass insulation. The small secitons you see at the top on this wall are fireproof insulation to provide a fire block so a fire can’t travel from the attic into theRead more about Insulation update[…]
In the last few weeks we’ve been working on grading the back yard. Here is what it looks like now. Here is a better shot with more contrast. The area around the fireplace is ready for the foundation for the small pool cabana, which will have three open sides. You can see we have aRead more about Back yard grading update[…]
We started insulation on Monday, and it is expected to take a week. So next Monday we start drywall. Here is before. And here is after. Not very exciting to look at, but exciting for us. 🙂 We are insulating all the interior walls as well for sound proofing. We will be insulating the floorsRead more about Insulation[…]
We had this existing wall on the property, a short segment that was skewed relative to the property line. We decided along with our neighbors that we liked the style, and wanted to tear down the existing wall and replicate the style all along the property line. Yesterday was the day it came down, andRead more about Down comes the wall[…]
We moved another palm tree last week. This happens to be the only tree we didn’t previously move. Originally, we had it 10 feet from the back of the house. However, as part of the planning process, we moved the house back 10 feet to reduce the perception of size from the street. But, weRead more about Moving another palm tree[…]