August 10th

The second floor roof trusses are beginning. We are awaiting the arrival of the stair framing specialist. Once his work is done, you will be able to safely climb up to the second floor. There is no access now other than tall and shaky ladders.

Well if we get a few more days of sunshine, we can make some real progress!

4/27/21

The waste lines for the house which will be located in the crawl space are complete the City of Dallas is scheduled to inspect today but we may be rained out. Will let you know. Once that is complete, we can have the subfloor decking delivered and proceed

Update: We passed the Plumbing Inspection from the City of Dallas

3/23/21

Crew members out sick and material shortages have been issues the last two weeks but we finally received our supply of void boxes so we can continue the pavilion and begin placing them for the basement ceiling/sprinter garage floor. We are schedule to pour on Friday. The water proofing for the basement walls has been completed and the sump installed. The parking court will really benefit from the drains once installed. In the entire crawlspace, there is only one spot that doesn’t drain perfectly. We will have it adjusted.

3/10/21

Almost complete. Porches, Garage floors and Pavilion are finally getting ready for final big concrete pour. Then no more concrete till time for flatwork (driveway, motor court, exterior stairs and sidewalks.

12/16/2020

Still very muddy progress continues. Then forms are being stripped from the basement walls.

All gunite is completely sprayed. Now just the carving and sculpting of it to be completed.

Hoping we can get the gravel delivered and spread later today.

12/15/2020

Muddy progress but progress all the same! Too muddy for the foundation and the pool crew to work at the same time. Going to get gravel brought in to allow multiple crews access before we start framing. During that stage there can be as many as five teams on the job.

Spraying the Gunite for the spa and side stair platforms

Spa side stairs. The concrete is sprayed then moulded and carved before it sets.

Completing the floor in the sun ledge area.

View into the pool bottom. Hope to complete the pool floor today.

One of the two foundation drainage sump pits.

Samples for the Antler Chandelier gold leafing underway.

Gold leaf complete. Now the sample will have a glaze added to part and an antiquing process added to part. Then the antler will come to Dallas for you to review.

December 7, 2020

17 workers at Inwood today: foundation, drainage, electricians.