Monthly Archives: September 2019

If you look at this picture from last week, you can see that the big wall doesn’t extend out to the edges of the foundation/base walls. That was done so they could make the extensions of wood, which will be … Continue reading →

There is still a lot more for Joe, Carlos and Victor to do up there, but if they put the wood on the sides of the big wall today, then we can write to the installer tonight to say we … Continue reading →

September 18, 2019

The bolts for the Andy’s beam anchors were perfectly aligned. He didn’t take a close-up of them, but you can see them on the top of the wall (covered by the vapor barrier) as they raise the beam. Here’s a … Continue reading →

One of the newsletters I get had an interesting question: If you had to describe yourself in one word, what would it be? I thought about it for a minute and the word resilient popped into my mind. Where did … Continue reading →

This message appeared on my site for about 20 hours yesterday afternoon/this morning. What happened is my hosting service moved my site to a new server and my firewall was directing everyone to the old server. It took some pushing/persistence … Continue reading →

They did pour the concrete Friday. There are more pictures on Flickr. Fingers crossed for Monday! September 14, 2019

They are now ready for pouring the concrete, this morning if all goes well. There are a couple more pictures on Flickr. Those metal bolts with nuts piercing the cross pieces are for the beam anchors Andy designed and had … Continue reading →

Yesterday they added more rebar to the concrete blocks and prepared the forms for the 11″ concrete layer that will go on top of them. They hope to pour the concrete Friday. There are are a few more pictures on … Continue reading →

They put the last concrete block on the wall yesterday. And prepared the ground for the footing for the stairs. There are a few more pictures on Flickr. Now they will get reading for pouring the concrete — with any … Continue reading →