Brick work done

The exterior is almost complete. The masons finished the brick work and we've got the exterior ready to paint. We should be able to paint this week and basically be done with the outside of the house.

Exterior almost done

The exterior trim and the hardiplank is almost done. The bricks are going up this next week.

Update bball court pics

Windows In

The windows were installed today. With them in, we're starting to get a much better sense of what the finished house will look like.

The garage floor should be poured tomorrow. There was one minor issue when it was inspected today that was resolved.

Playtime

I guess we're going to take this playset with us to the new house, at least if these two have any say in it.

Roof is on

The roofers managed to put the roof on in only two days. They had a pretty good sized crew and just knocked it out.

The sewer went in today as well. Rough plumbing should start next week.

Roof close to finished

The 18"+ of snow we had last weekend slowed things down, but it is finally melted and some progress has been made the last couple of days.

A roof!

We finally got a roof today! The enormous crane that was brought in got stuck, but the job was done. We're bringing in roofers early next week.

Ready for the roof

After two weeks of crappy weather that slowed the framing down to a crawl, it looks like we're ready to put the roof on. The crane will be coming this afternoon or first thing Tuesday morning.

Gray Helps Build the House

Gray has asked us constantly if he can "go help build the house". Today he got a chance to help - I took him out with his plastic tool set and he helped the framers for a while. I didn't put up the pictures of him with the nail gun - I figured Grandma wouldn't like those. :)

Framing updates - 1st floor almost done

The framers are moving right along. Here are pictures showing the first floor nearly finished framing. They're setting steel for the 2nd floor on Monday and hope to have the 2nd floor done in about a week.

Framing update

Looks like the framers are making good progress. They've spent about 1.5 days on the project so far and already have the first floor joists down and have started on the garage.

Updated schedule

We're only a month in and already these schedule postings are funny. I look back to estimated schedules only three weeks old and they're nowhere close. Supposedly it gets warmer later in the year, so we'll see if that lets things move along faster.

The tentative schedule is:

Jan 28: Strip forms and waterproof
Jan 31: Backfill
Early Feb: Begin framing / deck
Mid Feb: pour foundation floor

Walls Poured

Today the second phase of the walls was poured. The pictures below show the walls after they pulled the forms on the first phase of the pour (the basement portion). The 2nd phase - the first floor walls in the bball court - are formed and ready for the pour.

Urgency

As you can see from the picture below, we have to finish the house soon because we have so many children that they have to sleep on steps.