Two-story wood framing of a PMK Development new-construction home in La Cañada Flintridge

Construction Journals

The build before the reveal.

Some projects have a great construction story before the final photos are ready. These are those builds, documented on site as the work happens.

Chevy Chase, second-story framing, La Cañada Flintridge

Altadena, CA / Under construction

Las Flores Drive

A ground-up Altadena rebuild on a lot where the previous home was lost to the Eaton Fire, documented day by day as it happens: the ADU first, then the main home, from floor sheathing to exposed beams.

Burned rubble and scorched trees on the Altadena lot before PMK Development's rebuild on Las Flores Drive.
01 - The lot before the rebuild, the previous home lost to fire
New floor sheathing laid over the ADU foundation on day one of PMK Development's Las Flores Drive rebuild in Altadena.
02 - Day 1 - ADU floor sheathing over the new foundation
First framed walls and exposed roof beams over the ADU deck at PMK Development's Altadena rebuild.
03 - Day 3, first walls and roof beams over the ADU deck
PMK crew members plating and laying out framing beside the concrete retaining wall in Altadena.
04 - Day 6, plating and layout at the retaining wall
Stud wall framing rising on the ADU and main home at PMK Development's Las Flores Drive rebuild.
05 - Day 12, wall framing, ADU and main home
First-floor wall framing of the main home taking shape under palm trees in Altadena.
06 - Day 15, main-home first-floor framing takes shape
Sheathed second-story volume rising above braced framing at the Las Flores Drive rebuild in Altadena.
07 - Day 16, sheathing and the second-story volume
Ceiling joists and first-floor ceiling framing of the main home at PMK Development's Altadena rebuild.
08 - Day 17, first-floor ceiling framing
Roof underlayment installed on the framed home and ADU on Las Flores Drive in Altadena.
09 - Roof underlayment going on
New windows installed and exterior wrapped, with scaffolding along the Las Flores Drive home in Altadena.
10 - Windows in, exterior wrapped
Exposed interior ceiling beams with recessed lighting cans at PMK Development's Altadena rebuild.
11 - Exposed ceiling beams inside
PMK Development jobsite sign in front of the framed home on Las Flores Drive, with the San Gabriel foothills behind.
12 - PMK signage up as framing tops out
Main home and ADU framed and sheathed side by side at PMK Development's Las Flores Drive rebuild in Altadena.
13 - Main home and ADU, framed and sheathed

Photographed on site by the PMK crew, final photography follows completion

Altadena, CA / Under construction

Mt. Curve Avenue

From demolition to exterior stucco in the Altadena hills, grading, foundation, framing, and now interior finish, documented on site as the work happens.

Cleared yard with demolition underway behind the block wall at PMK Development's Mt. Curve Avenue project in Altadena.
01 - Demolition begins
Crew grading and compacting the pad with the San Gabriel mountains behind, at PMK's Mt. Curve Avenue project.
02 - Grading and compaction
Footing trenches dug across the compacted pad with a skid steer on site in Altadena.
03 - Footing trenches dug
A PMK crew member setting foundation formwork at the Mt. Curve Avenue project in Altadena.
04 - Foundation forms set
Poured block stem walls and decked subfloor with framing lumber staged on site in Altadena.
05 - Foundation in, subfloor decked
First framed walls rising from the deck at PMK Development's Mt. Curve Avenue project.
06 - Wall framing goes up
Framed interior with sheathed roof structure and window openings at the Mt. Curve Avenue build.
07 - Framing complete, roof structure in
Framed vaulted interior with window and door openings sheeted in plastic, recessed-light boxes wired overhead.
08 - Inside the framed volume - openings cut, electrical roughed
The structure wrapped in lath and paper ahead of stucco, openings masked with plastic sheeting.
09 - Lath and paper on, ready for stucco
Drywall hung with a rolling scaffold in the vaulted interior at PMK's Altadena project.
10 - Insulation and drywall
Drywall going up the vaulted ceiling over exposed insulation, rolling scaffold and ladders mid-room.
11 - Hanging the vaulted ceiling
Fresh exterior stucco on the finished structure at PMK Development's Mt. Curve Avenue project in Altadena.
12 - Exterior stucco
Freshly painted vaulted interior with recessed lighting and a new mini-split at PMK Development's Mt. Curve Avenue project in Altadena.
13 - Interior paint and finish underway
Painters detailing the baseboards in the finished interior, floor protection down and blue tape lines in place.
14 - Finish work - painters detailing the baseboards
Freshly poured concrete courtyard curving around a mature tree between the existing home and the new build.
15 - New site concrete - the courtyard poured around the old tree

Photographed on site by the PMK crew, final photography follows completion

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