Category: 2013 Remodel Truckee, CA
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14. Up to Labor Day weekend…
What a nice view when I arrived this week. No scaffolding on the deck, the siding all done on the front and stucco ‘green layer’ completed. Which actually dries to a light grey color. This needs to sit for a week and the final stucco color coat will be put on on Tuesday, September 10th. […]
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13. Stucco, Siding & a Rodeo…
Each week when I come up to Truckee, I pause and take a picture of the house from the street. I’m always amazed at how much change I can see from week to week. This post is about the week of August 19th thru 25th progress. Last week was all about getting the 1st floor […]
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12. Catch up Post
This is how Bob and I are living in Truckee. We put all new windows in the house during late July and early August. Except for the windows on the main floor all the windows are the same size as before. They needed to be replaced since they were fogging and not as energy efficient […]
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11. Garage & August 10th weekend
Well I am getting caught up. You are almost getting real time updates. Hopefully, next week I’ll catch up and just do weekly updates from now on. After the cement pour the garage/workshop was started on Monday, August 5th. Larry and Elder started framing the new garage on the 5th and by Aug 7th they […]
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10. Concrete final pour…
The concrete foundation preparation and pouring took longer than we realized and happened over 2 weeks. This meant that starting the garage/workshop had to be delayed. So in the meantime Larry, Elder and Bob worked on various tasks that also needed to be done, just in a different order than planned. This slowed things down […]
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9. Electrical Panel…
You may recall from the “excavation” post that we decided to move the electrical service underground to the house. In the past, wires for electricity, phone & cable came from the telephone pole to the house attaching at the roof just above the old front door. This caused pulling on the roof barge rafters during […]
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8. Roof removal
We used to say roof tear-off when Bob was in the roofing business but with a large metal roof like ours it is really a removal process. We are using Sierra Sage Roofing for the new roof. They came on July 24th to remove the old roof. They have a crew that comes in and […]
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7. Concrete Part 1…
Who knew it takes many steps to get a new concrete foundation poured in two different sections of a house. Certainly not me. We had to have the existing foundation removed in the lower corner of the house which is under the corner section of the 1st floor entry/laundry room. Then we needed the new […]
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6. Introducing Larry and Elder…
Well it’s time I introduced you to Larry Buranzon, General Contractor, and Elder Perez, Carpenter. These two great carpenters have been helping Bob since the July 11th start date every week, Monday thru Friday. Larry has over 30 years in the building trades and has been a General Contractor in the Truckee/Tahoe area for about […]
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5. Excavation!
Monday, July 15th the Excavation Contractor came with all our favorite toys which can power thru things that shovels would take weeks to do. Jim Fereira of Fereira Construction, Tahoe City, CA is the contractor and again we could not have asked for a better crew. On time, efficient and work done right the first […]
Henry's Foxhole "aka Fuxagufer West" 