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Details - 12/07/05


These photos cover almost four weeks of construction. The deck is framed, the drainage is in, the rough plumbing is in, the windows have arrived, the siding is going up, and the best news of all: the tiebacks passed the stress test (80,000 lbs. each) on 12/09! The rains have held off, so progress is good.

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11/13/05.
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The workers' boom box - it works!
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Susan stress testing one of the tiebacks.
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The sewage pump is in. It will be buried in sand to keep it quiet.
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Our great friend Susan Chen. She was glued to the seat in the redwoods.
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The big section of deck looking from above in the music room.
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The soaking tub is in place.
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View from the deck.
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View from the deck.
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Tony finishing the deck framing.
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The pony wall between the kitchen and dining room. Gas line for the stove.
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The downstair bathroom shower floor pan is installed.
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The L-shaped deck is framed. The close section is 4' wide, the far section extends 16' from the living room.
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They leveled the crawl space under the living room. It's a large storage space.
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The electricity meter panel is going in.
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Tower support will be visible when we're finished. The Pepsi will have been drunk by then.
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The bathroom plumbing in the kitchen ceiling.
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We added a full-sized door to the lower crawl space.
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12/07/05. The siding is going up and the rains have started coming down.
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Sliding glass doors are in. The dining room panels are 5'x8' and weigh 400lb. each. Marshall and Tony carried them across the plank!
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Living room glass doors, 12'x8' opening onto the deck.
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We brought a burrito lunch again. The windows are being stored in the music room until the scaffolding goes up shortly.
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Drainage pipes are in on the upper slope, which is covered with jute to minimize soil erosion during the winter.
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The draining pipes going down to the creek across our neighbor's property.
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Alfonso.
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12/07/05 - weatherproofing.The entire house has been built by carrying materials over the plank seen here, which spans the 12'+from the road to the parking deck.