Our Green House (Week 20)

We are now the proud owners of a nice green house. This is a major milestone for us and it's time for us to get to work quickly to turn this place into a liveable home. Especially since our families are coming to visit this December.

Week 13

So our construction project is actually starting to look like a real house now. Our crew started work on the exterior house wrap and prep for siding. Pretty quick, wouldn't you say?

Plumbing and HVAC are underway and Judie and I recently did a walk through with the electrician to figure out where all the light fixtures, switches, outlets, and recess lighting will go. There were alot of tough decisions to make, forced to commit our design choices before the rooms are closed off with drywall and trim. I guess just bite the bullet and keep our fingers crossed that our house turns out half decent.

We went to Anderson Moulding and saw a really awesome door trim so I decided to recreate this at home with the tools I had. I was happy with the results and I think we'll use this design for our house.

Going Up?

It's been almost a month since we started demolition. We've been living in the garage without a bathroom and the novelty of the porta-potty is getting old. At least we have electricity; minus the one night it was accidentally disconnected. Our house is gone. This is a very exciting time, because up until now, all we've just been tearing the house down.

Now we've actually started the building bit, and our foundation is in. We poured a slab, extending the rear by 15-20 feet, and also reinforced the foundation with a dozen concrete pads along the side of the house. We had to replace a large portion of the existing slab because it was cracked all the way through and there was no rebar holding it together.

Now the crew has started with the framing. Since the existing slab is not level, we'll have to spend some time leveling the top plates before putting up the second-floor joists. In the next month the rough framing should all be done and we'll have the skeleton of our new, two-story home.