Things You Might Overhear at the Tiu Home
Domingo: We're not building a watch (Swiss watch...).
Eastman: I don't KNOW... I'm just asking.
Julie: No...no...no...
Abby: Stop yelling.
(I guess Mom has her two cents in, but it's usually when I'm at work.)

Everyone (including tradespeople): You can make it a wine cellar! (In reference to the open space underneath the front porch due to the mistake in excavation.)

The basement slab was poured yesterday, and Project Engineer Eastman was quite interested in the operations. Here is his log from yesterday.

"Basement poured and looks great! We put up a fence in front of the porch hole and sprayed the front of the garage too. Pops dropped the paint cap (flipped out of his hands when he was taking it off actually) and it fell into the basement. It was before they were doing final smooth out though, so it's all good. BTW, they used cieling tile dividers as control joints, and they put them under the slab so the slab is actually all smooth. No visible control joints."