Casa de las Ratas 3/29/2002

Casa de las Ratas Week 8 & 9

up to March 29, 2002

I think this piece of wood needs more nails.

Big news was finally we secured the comprehensive permit for the house.
To date we were working only with a re-roof permit.
The city was starting to get angry that we were doing a little too much other work without more permits.
The big hangup was all about "Title 24" which is a California energy compliance issue.
We got a proper Title 24 report and now have The Big Permit. And the roof is finished.

The plumber is wrenching away. We have cleared away all the old galvanized pipe and old cast iron waste pipe. Here you see the outside wall opened up to remove the old pipes in the second bathroom.

New copper service is being brought in from the street. The city is coming out today Monday 4/1/2002 to install a new meter and feed from the street as the old feed broke off. This will be a good thing and ensure fabulous water pressure.

Manny and I ripped out the old bathroom subfloor to resheath it. The old subfloor was low as there was poured concrete on top of it under the tiles. We needed to bring the subfloor up to the same level as the rest of the house. As the joists had been chiseled back, we installed new buddy joists to them so we could nail the new subfloor to them.

Here is the new sub-floor in the bathroom...

Toto was outside replacing some more crawlspace vents. Notice how we finally got ALL the trash heaps removed! That was the last of six roll-offs. Now the yard is clear of all trash heaps.