Address Sign Installed

The custom address sign finally was ready at SPJ Lighting in South El Monte. So I went down, picked it up and installed it in the raised garden bed next to the portico. Looks good.

Day 36

Antonio, Tom and Eladio came this morning to install the craftsman-style lantern and landscape lights. The lantern is the perfect compliment for the portico. And the landscape lights add interest to the new planting beds and rock columns. Very nice.

Day 35

8:26 am...Antonio and crew arrived with more fencing materials to complete the iron fence. Lynne and I did some more crack filling and prep on the portico woodwork over the weekend. We will put up a coat of primer in the next couple of days. We also bought the plants for the garden planting beds between the columns. We will have compost and planting mix delivered this week.

Day 34

8 am...Antonio and crew continue work on the iron fence. Other than the dogs getting out during the day all went well. There is just one more piece of fence to install and then work at the existing gate.

Day 33

7:15 am...Antonio and crew plot out the fence line and bolt in the posts.

Day 32

8 am...Horizon crew arrives. Today is the day for the iron fence to go up behind the rock columns.

Day 31

7 am...Horizon Landscaping is here in force. Tom and Antonio discuss putting in the electrical conduit for the hanging lantern and how the iron fence will be anchored and work into the existing fence and gates. The new step will be acid washed as well as the landing and existing pavers.

Day 30

6:50 am...Tom and crew arrive to finishing preparing for the pour. They jack-hammer out a bit more under existing steel before the concrete arrives.

Day 29

6:45 am...Eladio surprised me as I went out to get the paper. I hadn't expected him on Sunday. But they are preparing for another concrete pour for Monday and needed to get the forms in.

Day 28

Antonio and the group came to do the last of the crack filling on the portico and to take the tool box and large tools from the front landing. Now everything is ready for our family gathering on Saturday. Next will be some additional cement work, an iron fence and some lighting.

Day 27

7:00 am...Eladio comes to begin work. He starts by patching the wood portico pieces. Then he works to cut the ends of the portico rafters to a nice vertical angle. Tom comes by to discuss some drainage issues and let us know that he will be starting on the iron fence next.

Day 26

6:50 am...Eladio drives in next to the carport. A beautiful sunrise in the east welcomes another day. It is cool now, but today is suppose to get over 100. Antonio came a bit later (with a haircut). The two of them perched high on ladders to complete the portico woodwork.

Day 25

6:50 am...Eladio arrived and began work. Later Antonio came to help get the portico roof pitch set. It is now taking shape.

Day 24

6:40 am...Eladio pulls in next to the carport. Today is a woodworking day. He and Antonio spend the day shaping and installing the 8 half-moon pieces of lumber which provide the base for the portico.

Day 23

6:46 am...Eladio pulls up. He begins prepping for more acid washing and touch up work way before the rest of his crew arrives. He is taking English classes at night.

Tom and Antonio later discussed the lumber work that will be topping the 2 large columns. Today they will install the bolts that will anchor the portico and begin the shaping of the curved pieces that will support the open-roofed structure.

Day 22

6:48 am...Eladio arrives. Soon after he and his fellow Horizon crew members are taking off the forms, mixing cement and getting set to acid wash the concrete.

Cement Work