another new chapter
The whole project feels really bogged down right now. I’m having trouble getting my utilities connected for various reasons, I can’t finish the rough grade and consequently can’t finish the garage or porch until we get some more sand brought in, and I’m struggling to finish my trades work. It’s been lots and lots of […]
What a busy month it has been! The framing rough in is mostly complete, besides maybe a few odds and ends. Our framing crew rocked it out very quickly and did an amazing job. They were about 1 month from the time they started until we had a roof on! The last couple of projects […]
Build time for ordering windows is about 3 months right now, so if I order windows from just about anywhere I won’t get them until November. Supply chains everywhere are so messed up, it is impacting different materials in different ways. Electrical boxes, for example, are in short supply right now for some reason. We […]
I spent about a week of evening and weekend time running the plumbing that goes in the basement. The sewer at the road is very deep, somewhere between 15′ and 16′ down at our driveway, which means we don’t have to worry about basement pits and pumps for bathrooms. it also means the whole house […]
It’s been a full and productive week at the house. It’s so nice to see so much progress being made quickly. That’s why the framing is really my favorite part of construction. In only a few short weeks it goes from empty lot to something that looks like a house! The framing crew is doing […]
The basement walls have been poured for about a week now, which means the framing has begun in earnest. The rough in framing really is my favorite part, because everything happens so quickly. What starts out as just empty space begins to take shape and look like a house in a matter of days, and […]
Last fall I sat down to see how many bedrooms I could pack into a floor plan, and what I ended up with and what we kept coming back to was this U shape. Bedrooms have to have windows, of course, which means if you just build a big rectangle you will have bedrooms all […]
We’ve had some delays (again) trying to get the foundation walls up. the footings have been there for a week now, but it’s all about scheduling to get the concrete forms in and poured now. As of right now that is scheduled to be finished middle of next week and we can begin framing right […]
My last couple posts weren’t terribly positive, so I thought I’d try to balance it out with some good news I received just today. Way back at the beginning of this thing, there was a question about utilities. You might remember if you read the early posts telling the story of the property and how […]
We have started digging! This is huge, and it was a long time in coming. But I guess that’s been true of everything so far, right? Maybe I should just be adjusting my expectations. We had a few setbacks along the way to getting the basement dug, so it’s amazing to see an actual big […]