Today the crew poured the large front porch. There are also two stoops, one for the front door and one for the office door. There will be a few steps from the front walk to the porch. We want to minimize those at it makes access more difficult. There was a problem with the front [...]
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The back patio and walkway are in! The crew dug the holes for the footings last week and yesterday they laid the forms. This morning the cement truck came and they poured and smoothed out the surface. Gorgeous. This crew does beautiful concrete work. (Can concrete be beautiful? Yes, it can!)
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Yesterday the concrete in the third bay in the single garage was poured. I saw one guy smoothing it yesterday afternoon. Looks very nice and, as far as I could tell from a cursory look, no one walked through it. They also scored the concrete in the larger garage area earlier in the day. Cutting [...]
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A big “thank you” is in order for the curious neighbor who just had to sneak into our house sometime after dark last night. Putting holes across the gorgeous and smooth new concrete that had been poured and finished in the double garage was, I’m sure, worth avoiding the trouble of walking to the back [...]
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After trying most flooring surfaces known to man, including carpet, laminate, ceramic tile, natural stone tile, and hardwood, we decided our new custom home would have polished concrete on the main floor and stained concrete in the basement. After extensive discussion and comparing, we chose Stewart Specialty Services to lay and polish the main floor [...]
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The fibrous concrete panels we are using to build the house — stacked up and secured with polyurethane before being filled with concrete — were something of an aesthetic mess. Bumpy, lumpy, and uneven, the walls didn’t much lend themselves to being easily stuccoed. Eames and a helper spent three long days this week rasping [...]
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This evening we got a call from E-Z Block. They are making the lightweight concrete panels that will form the structure for our home. And the have a bunch of our money — half the cost of the first set of panels. The entire build has been waiting on them since the basement was poured [...]
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