It’s been a tough week. On Sunday, a couple hundred gallons of water came through our ceiling thanks to the typhoon that hit Somerville. In spite of “global weirding” causing once-a-century rainstorms every second year, we don’t expect this to be an ongoing problem, thankfully. A combination of a clogged roof drain, a badly pitched [...]
Tag Archives: Construction
Parallel processing
We’ve hit a phase where construction rolls quickly and there’s a lot happening with relatively little interference from us. HVAC is complete. Hot water heaters got plumbed in, wires are now snaking through studs everywhere, the lighting plan is more or less done, though we need to find specific fixtures. You can even see where [...]
Happened today
On every construction project, there comes a point where the design team starts to have to scramble to keep feeding the construction team enough information for them to continue working uninterrupted. We hit that point today, and fortunately, we have enough going that Ben and Nick can keep going for another day or two – [...]
Mondays
Mondays are hard. For whatever reason, weekends seem to make everyone involved in construction nervous, with attendant blowups and firefighting on the Monday to follow. This one was no different – an air conditioning duct went up in a bad spot and had to get moved, plumbers put some pipes up where they shouldn’t have, [...]
Structure
Construction this week has gone pretty quickly. We’ve completed just about every wall that will exist in the space – the last one is getting framed today. In effect, you can now see then entire volume of the restaurant outlined in studwall. We kind of like it this way – it’s a connect the dots [...]
Skylight
Our friend in the park this morning: “So, the place is a wreck, you have no money, and you are wondering what you got yourself into, right?” That’s the voice of 25 years of experience in architecture and construction. Last week, the crew mutinied (Ben’s word) and asked if they could rip down the drop [...]
Floor!
We have a floor again! The concrete got poured today – about 100 sacks worth. Two mixers were broken in the process, so by the end of the day, the concrete was getting mixed by hand, in a wheelbarrow. Now we have to dance around it for 48-72 hours – longer for the big patch [...]
Bottlenecks
Not a lot of visible progress yesterday. The grease trap went in, as planned, and the drains (which in fact were not quite finished) got worked on some more. A lot of shifting around of stuff in the space to make room for the next stage of work – it’s regrettably crowded, due to there [...]
Construction lists
The Mysterious Financial Professional asked in no uncertain terms for more frequent blog updates (“I need something to read when I’m trying to procrastinate around 10am every day!”), and what he wants, he gets. We’ve been sending emails to the team pretty much daily, to keep everyone abreast of what’s happening, so we’re just going [...]
Men at work
This is what the space looked like a week ago. This is what it looked like yesterday. What happened in between was basically the tale of one man, and his jackhammer. The crew has just about finished demolition, and will begin framing out the space next week. Plumbing and electrical will come next – those [...]
