More scaffolding has arrived and been put up and weep screed is being installed around the bottom of the sheathing.

There has been a huge controversy about the weep screed. The weep screed is part of the transition from the stucco on the walls to the stucco on the slab and carries water away from the walls. Todd Jersey wants the stucco on the slab to appear to continue up into the stucco on the framing, but Janver doesn’t think this is sound building practice. We have had a lot of discussion about it and come to a compromise, but it will mostly be built the way Janver thinks is right.

Here is another shot of the weep screed going up.

One of the reasons that Janver is so insistent is that he was hired for another job to repair a house where, because soil was pushed up against the weep screed, a ground fungus ate through floors and walls, joists, studs and all . He thinks that the weep screed should be a little bit separated from the plaster on the slab and the is pretty adamant that this way of doing the stucco is necessary to protect against that fungus and also termite incursions.

The electricians have come, and gone, and come, and gone, much to Kai’s despair. However they swear that they will be on site tomorrow and push through the electrical rough.

Here is the house main panel, although there will also be a sub panel in the laundry room. A meter will go in that hole you see to complete the circuit, but no one will ever read it because the real meter is in the electrical shed.