Several people have been asking about the floor plans for our remodel so we invested the time to create a new static page that includes most of the architectural drawings.

Here is the updated ‘map’ of the static pages:

>>> Project Overview
         >>>  House Plans
                   >>> Main Floor Remodel
                   >>> New Lower Level
         >>>  Drawing Sheet Index
         >>>  Integrating Design Elements with Resource Efficiency
         >>>  Project Timeline

Other feedback that we received included comments regarding how difficult it was to navigate through the static pages.  We’ve included new navigation on the Project Overview page and sub-pages.  Look ok now?

We understand and appreciate that some of the jpg images of the floor layouts on certain of the static pages need to be of a higher quality (and that will be for the next rainy day).

Take a look at the Drawing Sheet Index and click through to see PDFs of individual archhitectural drawings.  What do you think?

This detail should help you to understand our project much better.

With the delay on the inspection by the City of Monte Sereno, we worked with Larson Steel and made some changes to the design, and agreed to move forward on this project with Larson Steel.

Larson Steel, Inc. in Gilroy

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Our plan is to pour the foundation slab on Monday, March 2.  This requires having the City of Monte Sereno inspect and approve the progress to date.  Bryan called the City of Monte Sereno to request an inspection for Friday, February 27 and learned that no inspections will be done on that date.  OK, we just slipped by a day and the inspection will be between 10:00 am and noon on Monday, March 2.

Jessica from Duquette Engineering arrived to review the structural steel.  Since she had not been to the project site before, Thien had her look at this construction blog to prepare for her site visit (that rocks!). 

Jessica inspects the reinforcing steel (dimensions, spacing and overlaps).

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