Tall Garage

Since Monday the framing crew has been cruising right along on the house. It is really starting to take shape. We can now see where all of the rooms. They also got the garage framed, started on the bonus room, started on the roof, and started putting the outside sheeting on.

The crew has moved the fireplace so it is now centered in the great room, it looks much better now. They still need to fix the closet in the half bath, and we noticed a mistake in the master bath on how they framed the shower. They will need to fix that as well.

I am now really excited that the garage is framed. It is huge!! Or at least it is very tall which makes it seem very large. The ceiling must be about 14 feet high. They had to keep the ceiling even with the first floor and since the house floor level is so much higher than the garage it has made for a tall garage. I have been kidding Carey that we could put a car lift in it.

We are also getting into the stage of the house build where we are having to pick things out. We went and picked out our fireplace insert and log set on Tuesday evening. It wasn't quite as exciting as I thought it might be. The logs we are getting are going to look much better than what we have now, but still not as real looking as what I was hoping for. It isn't really the logs so much as the insert. I was hoping that we wouldn't really have an insert but more of a real fireplace. We picked one that we could cover the face with the stone that we are using for the fireplace, that way it won't be as noticeable.

Here are some photos of the progress.







View off of front porch.



More photos from Tuesday







Photos from Wednesday. Roof started and bump-out in bonus room framed.






View out bonus room window.

Still Framing

Friday and Saturday the framing crew continued to work on the house. They made good progress and we can really see what the layout is going to look like. The first floor is now all framed other than the garage. Here are some photos from the weekend.







Here is a photo of my nephew and Garrett standing outside what will be the basement doors.



Here are pictures of the boys in their bedrooms.




A few more photos.





Our builder has told us that we should be in by June 15th. So we are looking for the next two months to go by quick. He told us we need to plan on painting the outside in 2 weeks. It is hard to believe that the outside will be ready to paint in 2 weeks.

We did notice a couple of things looking at the framing though. One was that our fireplace is not centered in the in the front room. The other is that there is a dead space about 3' by 4' in the half bath next to the closet. I have talked to the builder about both and they will be fixed. The fireplace was not supposed to be framed until after we picked out the log set. The space in the half bath will be added to the closet space and a pocket door inserted.

Moving Right Along

Over the last 3 days the framing crew has been out and started framing up the house. This seems to be moving right along. Also our builder has given us a tentative date to be in our house. He said we should be in by June 15, a little over 2 months from now. That would be great. Here are pictures from day 1 of framing.







Here are photos from Day 2 of framing.







Yesterday I thought it really looked like they got a lot done considering the weather was not particularly great. They got the basement framing finished the sub-floor for the first level and the basement stairs roughed in. Here are pictures from Day 3 framing.







More pictures form Day 3 framing.

Poured Concrete

This past week has been very busy that is why I have not had any new posts. This Friday is the official last day that we are supposed to have in our old house. We have already moved out, but there is still a lot that we want to remove from the house. We still have a deck, part of the fence, all of the fence posts, all of my tools, the marble bath tub and shower to get out. I am very much looking forward to not having anything left to do at the old house. It seems that moving is all we do these days.

Last week while the builder was on vacation some things did get done. At the start of the week they finished leveling out the fill materials so they could pour concrete. Also, they did some waterproofing around the basement walls. This green foam board appears to be glued to the concrete walls and is the waterproofing that they do for the basement.






Later in the week the concrete slabs got poured for the basement and garage. The concrete looks great, the basement looks like it could be a skating rink. The only bad thing is that the weather was pretty hot last week and they had to put some sealer on the garage floor to keep it from drying too fast. I wanted to epoxy the garage floor and now I will need to decide whether to just keep it sealed or to acid wash it so I can epoxy it. I can not epoxy over the sealer because it will peel off. Here are photos of the poured concrete.