More slow and steady progress

They are making slow but steady progress on the roof. They say it's pretty complicated and that it takes a lot of brain power to make it work as they connect the different slopes from the different trusses.

The bonus closet in the loft/movie room was framed out and the roof has been put up over it.

Plumber came and drilled holes for the plumbing!

Toilet holes in the bathrooms.

View from the front porch.

View of the front porch.

Front porch on the right, they are still working on the roof over the garage.

Garage.

More garage.

View from the southwest corner of the house/garage.

Back of the house. The roof is done on the back. The back patior/porch should be getting done this week, or at least they should get started.

Northwest corner of the house.

View of the sunset from the dinning room.

They put some nice pieces of wood around the garage openings.

Close up wood around the garage.

Dog wash in the laundry room.

Soffit in the mudroom over where the lockers will be.

They dropped a ledge for the shower area to tie the glass into.

They had to extend the wall on the right where the cabinets will come out so that they aren't sticking out further than the wall. Also built in the wall where the fridge will be.

A closet built into the powder bath.

They got the tubs built in in two of the 3 upstairs bathrooms. See above and below.

That bonus closet has the doorway built in now.

The wall on the left of the alcove was brought out to be even with the wall on the right. There will be a set of cabinets and someday, hopefully, a mini-fridge. This is in the loft/movie room.

We met with the builder and the plumber and we have to bring out a wall in our great room/living room to make room for some plumbing, which is annoying, but it should only eat into our room by about 4 - 6 inches. That means they may have to move one of the windows so it stays centered in the room. So, unfortunately some work still needs to be done. The beams to go in the living rooms should be put in this week and the windows should be getting installed as well. We'll see if they can keep up with the promises they've made. The framers are good but slow. I'm hoping when we move on to the next subs we can catch up on some of the time we've lost.

Here we go again!

Trusses arrived today! This was the first of two loads! That's a lot of trusses. This week, in preparation for the trusses the crew came out for a few days to get some of the upstairs done that didn't need the truesses. This is looking from the great room into the kitchen and above the kitchen and front room we have some bedrooms. They started the staircase and I noticed that under the landing there was A TON of wasted space. See above and below. I asked our builder about in and she said she'd talk with the crew. The steel beam arrived for the garage. It is very big. The crew finished the stairs and opened it up BIG TIME! I was super happy about this. It increased the storage in our house dramatically. I'm six feet tall and can walk into the farthest back part of this closet standing straight up. IT IS AWESOME!!! More closet. Where the ladders are stored is about 6 feet tall! Landing on the staircase. Down this hall will be another bedroom and a loft and my music roo...

Foundations

One of the things I really want is a big, open garage. We planned it all out in the drawings but recently we heard back from the structural engineer that they will have to put a post/column in the middle of the garage. We talked with our builder about what could be done. She asked about a bigger truss but the truss guy says that they can't build a bigger truss. We decided to pay the engineer to do the math and see if a large steel beam could be used because according to our builder she doesn't expect the beam to add that much cost, if its possible. The engineer is currently working on seeing if its possible. If it is possible they will likely have to make the footings bigger and that would add concrete cost but overall the cost can't be predicted until the engineer updates his plans. Once the plans are updated our builder can let us know about costs and at that point we can decide if the increase cost is worth it or not. I feel that paying an engineer a little mo...

Slow and steady

Small but steady changes. The crane came back this week and put up a few trusses over the garage but overall, not a lot of externally visible changes, but some small things were done. The timbers for the porch are all mostly in place but I'm told that getting a 4:12 roof to line up with an 8:12 roof is pretty tough and that is what is happening over the porch. This is what they should be working on this week. Entry. Straight ahead will be the fireplace between those two windows. Upstairs, this is one of the last areas that needs to be framed out. The crane will be coming back in this Thursday for the last of the trusses to be hung over the other half of the garage. Though not a lot of visible work was done on the outside of the house this week somethings have been going on inside. If you look at the picture above there is a 2x4 along the ground in the doorway. This is how they framed the whole house. It seems that this week they've been cutting and removing the 2x4 on the th...

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