A journey lugging aspirations and experiences, tools and ideals.
It looks like framing is done everywhere now.
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Today’s visit brings good news on a few different fronts. There IS a pump in the basement and the floor is mostly dry. This is so good, especially considering that yesterday we had rather heavy rain much of the day. Looks like it stayed outside – where it is supposed to.
The basement has a brand new furnace sitting in its belly. There is duct work running to a variety of rooms. Vents in the bathrooms, returns in the hallways. All very cool for me.
The electric meter is attached to the wall outside and there’s a number of new protrusions coming out of the house.
I grabbed a few more pics of the building plans.
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It’s late in the afternoon on Saturday. Carol and I spent the morning hauling a ton, well, to be precise, 490 lbs, of household excess and leftover stuff, to the LanChester Landfill. Carol’s first experience with the dump. We both found it somewhat cathartic throwing old stuff into the big bins. So much of the stuff we tossed was actually inherited when we bought This Old House back in 2007. I vowed NOT to move it into our new house.
We had to grab a quick selfie in front of our blossoming home.
It was time to explore the framed out rooms in our home. We wandered through the entire place, grabbing pics along the way. I even grabbed some photos of the building plans that were lying in the garage. The electrical and plumbing schedules are sure to come in handy at some point.
We did find one disturbing thing. The basement had about 2″ of water in it! Our guess is that this was from the heavy rains we had earlier that week – before the roofing was installed. Hopefully the next time we visit there will be a pump running.
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Another huge progress day. The plywood sheeting is covering the roof trusses. It really defines the lines of the house now. This is so cool. I’m more amazed every day.
They cut the opening for the front door and the rear slider off the dining room. The windows are in. This is so interesting to me to watch how it all goes together.
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OMG. We have walls.
That’s the text I sent to Carol when I visited the site today at about 1:30p. The framing was up on all the exterior walls. The trusses were in place for the roof. The insulating sheeting was up almost everywhere. This is amazing. It’s going so fast.
One of the guys working on the house said that by tomorrow afternoon the roof would be shingled!
I did need to make another stop at our new storage area to drop off the remaining Christmas decorations.
I can’t miss a day now. I’ll need to visit every day to keep up.
This is really getting exciting. Never thought it would be like this. We arrived at the property today to find that the concrete floors had been poured in the basement and the garage. Totally cool. I completely resisted the urge to carve my initials in the garage, but I did think about it.
Saturday May 25, Memorial Day weekend, shows a lot of progress. The entire rough grading and back-fill of the property appears to have been completed. You can now see how the house will sit on the land in relation to the neighbor’s houses.
Carol is intro’ing the view as we walk up the driveway to the house in the video below.
We can see the property, but we noticed some markings on the floor fill in the basement. There is a wet area in the north west corner and it is outlined in red. Hopefully this means that the construction project manager has noticed and is marking it to be addressed. I’ll need to check in with him after the holiday and see.
We drove to the back edge of the development (as it is today) and checked out the community firepit. It’s in a great location with open space to the south of it. Lots of benches. Just a short walk from our house. It appears that the walking trails connect up to this space.
Carol and I talked about the open space in this area of the development and how different it is likely to look in 1 year, 5 years, and 10 years.