Framing, Week 1

The framing started on Thursday this past week.  By the end of the first day, the floor over the basement was done and the walls were started.  The wall on the garage was up and the other walls look like they were being built, but not yet erected.

I got a call from Nate Friday.  He told me the trusses were delivered today and that framing would continue through next week and they'd probably be working on putting the roof on by next Thursday!  Seriously, one week?  WOW!

We stopped by at the end of the day Friday and the garage was done and most of the first floor and the second floor was started.  It was super fun to be able to actually walk into the house!  I noticed our tubs were all delivered too.  Hannah asked (with disappointment) why did you get green ones?  Silly girl - that's the back side of them!!!

Here is a picture of the garage and then into the kitchen/breakfast room from standing in the garage. 

This is where the stairs will be both going upstairs and the stairs to the basement

And this one is of the windows in the great room.  Seeing this excited me and it sure felt real!

We've had 2 showings on our house in one week after listing with a new agent.....keep your fingers crossed we see an offer soon!!!

Lumber has arrived!

I stopped at the house at lunch time Wednesay just in time to see them unloading their trucks with our lumber!!!

Things are surely going to start looking different over the next couple weeks.

 

And I'll close this with a picture of a beautiful sunset we watched from the car tonight in our church parking lot before Hannah's choir practice.....God's works are amazing - all of them!

 

 

Basement is done

So there wasn't a lot of visable progress on the house last week.  They did waterproofing of the basement walls.  There was all sorts of underground and utility work going on.

On Wednesday, they filled in the foundation.  They brought a whole bunch of gravel and new dirt in and then filled in everything around the foundation. 

The ground is now level to the edge and the bottom is all gravel.  You can actually stand in the garage!!  Here's a picture from of inside the basement from standing in the garage space.

There are also some support beams on site too.  The poles that will be set in the basement are lying in the space.  I didn't get my weekly call last week, so I'm not entirely sure of what's in store for the upcoming week, but framing is supposed to start, so that should be fun to watch!

Monster's Inc.

Monster's Inc. is Nicholas' favorite movie.  He's loved it for probably a year or so.  We watch it at home sometimes 3 times a week when he's on a roll.  We actually wore out the first DVD and have had to buy a new one.  So when it was released in the theater, it wa a perfect first movie to take Nick to.

Tony and I took him last Friday, January, 4 -  just the 3 of us.  He loved it, did great in the theater and recited half the movie as it went along.  He only wore his 3D glasses about 1/3 of the movie.

This was a great experience with him, a wonderful memory.  The only downfall was paying over $51 for a movie we watch ALL THE TIME!  Oh, well, he's worth it!

 

Basement Walls

The basement walls were poured on the new house today.

The forms were delivered yesterday and then staged around the perimeter of the basement.

Today, in the freezing cold, the crews set the forms

Then, I think, this truck was wrapping up for the day after the walls were poured

 

 

There was supposed to be other underground stuff going on this week, but I'm not sure if that work was able to be done because it's 25 degrees out - so cold!  I'll find out tomorrow when I hear from Nate.