Great Wall

They have the great room wall finished, framed the back wall and started the stairs. They also completed one of the window wells in back. They said they'd finish stairs tomorrow and more sheating on the roof. They've gotten a lot done and if the weather holds, will work over the weekend too. It's supposed to snow again starting Friday night into Saturday, but hopefully we won't get much. The weather forecast for next week doesn't look really good.

Back wall framed in.

Front of house with sheating completed. Two windows are still covered up.

Great room wall framed in. Won't it be fun to know that there is a ladder in the wall...

Platform for stairs that go up.

One window well for the basement complete.

A Lot Happens in a Week

Lots of activity out at the farm the last few weeks.

All the steel has been put in place.

All the floor joists for the main floor are in place.



All the flooring has been installed.



And we have a basement!


Yesterday and today they are chalking up the lines for the 2x6 and 2x4 walls on the main floor. We had to make some changes in the kitchen because it looks like the space for the refrigerator isn't deep enough. We could go with the wider/shallow refrigerator, but it is $4k more, so we decided to move the walls instead.

We are also talking about moving some walls in the master bath. Seems like our shower isn't quite big enough for two people, which we intended it to be. The framers are really good at seeing things and making adjustments as needed.

The utilities are also coming along. They have completed the gas line to the house. This week, the city electric utilities are working on boring the electric from the new church facility on the corner down to our property. They will trench across the driveway to the house in front tomorrow and will be coming down the east edge of the property tomorrow. Cable and phone are also being inserted into this trench so we'll have all the utilities ready except water. It is a different utility that brings us water, so not sure when that will happen, but looks like all of the utilities are coming as expected.

We drove around looking at stone samples and are getting our stucco samples today. We are narrowing down the color and will need to schedule another meeting with our decorating consultant in the next few weeks to finalize exterior colors.

We ordered windows yesterday and finalized those. Most of them will be casement and we have limited choices on the color. We chose the almond color rather than white or gray. They don't warranty the darker colors, I guess because they haven't figured out how to keep them from absorbing too much heat and causing problems.

We should start seeing walls go up this afternoon or tomorrow.

Concrete

I haven't been out to take pictures, but my Dad called this AM and by 9:00, they had the basement floor poured and the pad for the horse grooming tie rack. Wow, that is fast. They must have gotten all the gravel done yesterday, I should have stopped by.

I will try to get out today while it is still light and will post a new picture.