Finished framing! Plumbing, HVAC and electrical...

This was just a cool picture from a lightning storm up at the property.

HVAC stuff began getting installed.

Exposed beams for the grand room prepped and ready for installation.

Supports for above the beam are in place.

Center main beam is ready to go.

Front timbers done.

Back timbers done.

Blue roofing base is on most of the house at this point.

More HVAC vents installed.

Toilet mounts ready to go.

Cedar posts on the awnings.

Beautiful sunset.

More vents installed.

BEAMS ARE UP!!!

View from the entry way with the fireplace and beams in place.

Tongue and groove (T&G) installed in the front.

Other half of the porch T&G installed.

Electrical stuff getting done.

T&G done on half of the back porch.

Tubs arrived for the upstairs bathrooms.

Plumbing for the tubs is done.

Back porch with T&G.

View from the front door with the T&G done.

View of the front porch with the T&G.

Vents from the bathrooms up to the roof.

Upstairs plumbing coming along.

Vents from the plumbing up to the roof.

Vent above the stove hood in place and ready to go.

T&G in the back ready to go.

All roofing paper is in place and vents are poking out.

Tomorrow we have a meeting to go over cabinets with the cabinet maker and then next week we do the electrical walk through. Progress!

Cranes and Trusses

The crane was scheduled for Tuesday so on Monday they got things ready. Early Tuesday morning they were cranking. Here's the crane from far away. The crane in action. View of the back dinning room. Great room with trusses. Great room as seen from the entry way. The upstairs bedrooms were done with this little perch of what became a hallway. This is the "before" so you can appreciate the after. They put the trusses on the upstairs bedrooms over the entryway and you can see that below. Trusses over the main living area and some of the trusses over the garage where there is some more living space. The crane was rented for 5 hours on Tuesday and this is what they got done. They will get the crane again this week and they are hoping to be done with the trusses at that point. They put up the front, east facing, wall of the hallway. Same thing from inside the garage. Back, west facing, wall of the hallway was done. Starting to push out over the garage. This...

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...

Foundation Prep

The soil on our lot was not great for a foundation so we had to dig a deep hole and then back fill it with soil that can compact well enough to support the house. We had to put 3 feet of backfill in! We watched them bring load after load of dirt and then smooth it out and compact it and then do it all over again until the full 3 feet were filled in. Last night I took my daughter up there after soccer practice and we walked around on the final grade. Footings and forms should be going up next week!

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