Tag: construction
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Back From The Dead
I’m back from the dead. Construction on the ADU project completed in July. Two and a half years from beginning to “end”. We learned a lot. We learned that contractors have to be babysat. At least the one we had did. He never wrote anything down, or checked on the work of his employees, or…
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Framing Continued…
The trusses have been constructed. The GC walked the job and informed me the attic would not be tall enough to accommodate the central HVAC systems. Mini-splits it is. The plans show minis, anyway. I’m OK with it. I am going over there today to show the empty unit. I will take some pics for…
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Concrete Poured
The concrete has been poured! I did not get a chance to visit the site to get pictures of the rebar job. It is fun and educational to watch something being built from the ground up. I used to work for my Dad around twenty-four years ago. I did not have the interest in the…
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Time For Rebar
It sure is going to be tight back there. The additional room for the garage conversion is pretty tiny but it will work, nonetheless. I don’t know what the task is called to bury all of the plumbing, but that has been finished. It looks really nice. The next step is to construct the rebar…
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Busy Plumber
My childhood friend is also the person who is supposed to be plumbing this project. Since the project has started, he has not been able to commit any time to working on it. Getting him to come out and mark trenches for the underground plumbing was difficult enough. In his defense, we did not agree…
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Update
All the trenching is complete. It is ready for plumbing underground. My plumber is busy at the moment so my Dad is going to step in. It was going to be another week before he can get to the job and I don’t want to wait that long. I think my Dad is bored because…
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Site Preparation
There was a crew at the job over the weekend. I thought that they couldn’t work Sundays but, according to the general contractor, the permit states work can be done on Sundays between the hours of 9AM-3PM. Who knew? On Saturday, the crew was jackhammering existing concrete. I went back on Sunday and the crew…
Winning the Rat Race 