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So it looks like you will get a garage after all! Garage wall framing was completed this week, and the crew was rolling garage trusses while I was onsite this afternoon.  The roof sheeting is complete (except for the garage), and most of the cold roof vents were framed and hoisted in to place. The guys […]

Beautiful weather returned this week to ring in the first day of fall. The site recovered over the weekend and the ground dried out. The crew continued to work on the trusses and roof overbuild, and got a large percentage of the roof sheeted as well. They also worked on the timbers, and we worked […]

This was a tough week weather-wise. We got a good start on Monday – the day was sunny and nice. The crew had trusses and sheeting on the upstairs roof, and continued to roll trusses on the bedroom wing, pantry and office. They also moved around to the timber work on the master porch. Tuesday […]

Lots of framing progress was made this week. The crew worked a half day on Labor Day, and still made good headway framing the interior walls (upstairs and downstairs), framing and sheeting the second floor exterior walls, and beginning to roll the trusses. Next week, they will split into two smaller crews – one will […]

This week was a busy one! On Monday the insulators sprayed the foam insulation on the garage floor in preparation for the concrete pour. Tuesday morning at 7 am the concrete truck showed up and we poured the slab. Air temperature was a brisk 33 degrees, but quickly warmed up! They returned Wednesday to saw […]

Walls are going up! The crew framed most of the exterior walls this week, and will move on to sheeting the walls tomorrow. We received heavy rain yesterday afternoon, which caused the framers to stop work at lunch time. Luckily we were able to set the garage steel prior to the downpour. The steel fabricator […]

The framers made a lot of good progress this week. They were able to get most of the floor joists installed by the beginning of this week. We had a crawlspace framing inspection, and then moved on to installing the floor plywood. Today the framers waterproofed the floor ply with a sealer – this will […]

This week was mostly about earthwork. The excavator was on site Monday morning continuing to backfill the foundation walls. He also prepped the crawlspace and garage floors, and covered them with crushed gravel. The framing crew was onsite on Wednesday to start their layout – snapping lines and laying pressure treated sill plate on the […]

This week began with the concrete pour of the foundation walls. Monday morning was spent prepping the forms and setting the embeds in time for the concrete trucks, which were scheduled for the afternoon. The pour went well, despite a brief intermission for a rain, lightening, and thunder show, and Tuesday morning the forms were […]

Monday saw the surveyors back on the site to set reference points on the footers. The concrete guys then began tying in vertical rebar and forming the walls. They will continue this through tomorrow. Dave and I will be on the site all day Monday setting utility blockouts, hold-down straps, and steel timber column bases […]

With the building permit in hand we were able to pour the concrete yesterday afternoon for the foundation footers. The crew has been out there today stripping the forms. We have the surveyor scheduled for Monday to set reference points on the footers so we can begin forming the concrete foundation walls. Lower Valley hooked […]

After breaking ground last Thursday, dirt is being moved and we’re on our way. Pete’s Excavation started out by clearing the grass and topsoil, and digging the road. Monday morning we met at the site with Chris and Ben to go over the base elevation of the house, and some structural changes to the depth […]