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.

Stem Walls and Windows

They poured the concrete into the forms early last week and took them off within a day. They then came back and cleaned up the job site and let the concrete cure for the rest of the week. I love the view here facing that sunset! While we were waiting for the concrete to cure we met with our builder and the distributor that they use for their windows and exterior doors. They had bid out the windows based on the plans and we were meeting to go over everything and clarify questions. Before the meeting I reviewed the plans and compared it to the bid and found that they had missed one of windows in a guest bathroom and the bid had mentioned that two windows shown on the elevation plans were not on the actual floor plans and so we had to be pretty thorough. They had the windows drawn in as casement windows but in my mind I had always imagined single hung windows. I didn't know what these were called but I visited the Anderson Windows website and as I looked around I found o...

Backfilling

Not a ton to report this week. They are working on backfilling. They have to backfill the garage with compactable soil and will then pour the slab in the garage. They also have to fill the areas where we will have our front porch and back patio with the compactable soil but the rest of the stuff can be backfilled with regular soil. Here are some pictures of the progress. You can't really tell from this picture above, but there is quite a slope down from the house into the back yard and I'm going to have to figure out how to landscape that... The weather was spring-y and crappy this last week so I thought the blue sky was a nice one to end on. The weather is supposed to change from 50's and rainy to the 70's and sunny come April so we are looking forward to that! This last picture is the most recent one from earlier today.

We're Moving Dirt!

We have made some progress! After two years of planning and getting ready today was the day! We signed bank documents a few days ago and our builder told us late this week or early next week they would start digging. Every day this week I drove by the property to see what was going on and I was always disappointed to see nothing. No tractor, no hole in the dirt. Nothing. Yesterday morning, Friday, I drove by and there was a tractor but nobody in it and I figured they were just getting ready for Monday. I drove by last night just to check and nothing had changed. Today, I was out running errands and I was in the area and thought, "What the heck, why not just drive by and see what's going on? Maybe they've done something." though I doubted they would come on a Saturday. It was about 2 PM and I drove by and saw this: I came home and shared the news with the family. We ran over later in the day and it was WINDY and cold. We made sure the kids knew not to climb ...

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