January 9, 2013: Brown coat, taping and tile base

We've now got three different crews working simultaneously:  Stucco, wallboard finishers and tile setters.  We also met with the cabinet maker today.

The brown coat went on quick.  I did not get a picture of the application.  This is the north side of the house with the brown coat applied.

Inside, the wallboard finishers are busy doing taping.

Back to the outside, the front has the brown coat.

Back to the inside, this is the girls bathroom.  Sandon and his crew have applied the tile base.

The tub/shower has been prepped for it's tile base.

Taping has started in Alex's bedroom.  This is from the doorway.

The north side of the house from the garage.

The main entryway.  It's really starting to look more finished with the brown coat.  Also, the front door was installed, but the door was removed and replaced with a temporary door.  This left the frame for the stucco crew to work with.

The south side, two story section, with its brown coat.

Looking the other direction on the south side again.  Brown coat complete.

The back of the house.  The main patio section has been brown coated.

Back inside, this is Edgar. He is the wallboard finisher foreman.  He's very quick and very good.

The A/V and network closet is looking more finished.  My bundle of cables are surviving.

One of the wallboard finisher crew working the kitchen skylight.

Francisco (in black) chats with Nick of Sandon's crew.

Sandon (facing away from the camera) and Jason (?, not sure that's his name) working the master bathroom tile base for the floor.  The are very methodical and very good.

One of their leveling techniques.

Back down stairs, this is a picture of how they fill in sections cut out for the brackets.

The stairwell is coming together.

These are the texture samples.  We're going with something in between the two.

January 5, 2013: Scratch coat, sewer clean-out

Also, more wallboard...

The scratch coat is going on today.  They've prepped the house.

The mixer.  Everything is covered in plastic because the scratch coat material is like cement glue.

Outside the family room in the back is coated.

A view of the entire rear of the house.  Mostly not covered yet.

This is where the new and the old meet.

The chimney on the roof is getting covered too.

The south side.  The two story section was done first.

This is a close up of the corner treatment in preparation for the square corners.

Not the sharpest focus, but the left wallboard is QuietRock and the right is standard 5/8 wallboard.  You can see the sandwich in the QuietRock.

This is a shaper end-on image of the QuietRock.  Nearly the entire wall where the TV will be mounted is covered in this material.  Also, on the other side of the wall.

After much digging, the terra cotta for the sewer was found.  New terra cotta was installed for a clean out (as per code).

This is Matt gluing in the ABS sewer pipe from the house to an ABS fitting that is clampoed to the terra cotta.

The scratch coat is complete.  Alex and Cali are checking out how it looks wet, but it's now very hard.

The entire front of the house with the south side.

The north side is covered.

The back of the house is almost covered.  I believe the are waiting for the glass block windows to be installed upstairs be fore completing the scratch coat around them.

Another pic of the front.  The large pile of gravel is for the sewer pit.

Inside, the family room is boarded.  I got a sample of a 5 1/2 inch baseboard.  I think this is the right scale for this room.

This is Cali's room.  It's complete.  The QuietRock sections can be identified with the brown lines.

Alex's room is also boarded.

A picture of the blocking I added to the pocket door.  We should now be able to mount towel bars.  I just need to make sure my screws are never longer than 1 1/4 inches.  The blocking is 3/4 inches.  The wallboard is 5/8 inches.  So, 1 1/4 inch screws give me 1/8 inch margin.

The south side. The interleaving of the old and new stucco can be seen.

The two story section.

Another pic of the south side from the other direction.  Note: The white window will be painted to match the others.  It's a hold-over from before the remodel. It's a triple pane Pella that we wanted to reuse.

January 3, 2013: Stucco prep and more wallboard

Evan doing some stucco prep work on the rear wall.  We're adding weep screed all around.  It's a good improvement.

Another picture of the sewer clean-out pit.  The diagonal pipe is the line from the house.  The vertical is the clean-out.  The two join with the sewer utility.  I believe this is supposed to be terra cotta.

Final prep for the stucco on the south side.  Looks good.

The family room is nearing completion of its wallboard.  The wall on the left is getting special QuietRock wallboard.  This is to minimize noise transfer to Cali's room.

My sister checking out the progress in the master bathroom.

The stucco prep crew working on the south side.  The scratch coat is scheduled for tomorrow.

I believe the family is done or nearly so.  Ready for taping.

Back to the rear wall.  They are moving quick.

They are tying in the wire.

We are getting 'square' corners on the stucco.  They attach special square corner wire for that purpose.

Every outside corner gets special treatment.  This guy was very careful in his work.  He used a level to make sure his corner wire was attached right!

January 1, 2013: More progress on the wallboard

And digging up the sewer clean-out...

The living room has been boarded.  This is from the dining area looking towards the front window.

Living room again.  This time from the clipped corner towards the fireplace.

The kitchen.

This is the skylight in the master bath.

The master bedroom closet.

This is the guest bedroom shower.  We're finalizing the tile.

Digging down to the sewer.  I think it's going to need to be changed out for modern materials.  It's way down.  Probably 8 feet.