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.