Framing Day 4 - Enclosing the exterior walls,framing the stair way

Framing Day 4 - Enclosing the exterior walls,framing the stair way

Framing Day 4 has completed!

When I got off work I was hoping to see the rest of the trusses up, but it looks like they worked on framing in the stairwell, the front porch, and enclosing the exterior walls by adding more sheathing. Everything is looking good and its nice to come home everyday and see progress being made. I forgot to take a picture of it, but the framers did fix the framing of the kitchen window.

Stairway to the second floor

Blakes Room was hard to take a good picture to get the entire room. that is a BIG window!

Haylie's room

Picture of the living room from the second story

Looking into the Kitchen/Dining room from upstairs

Looking into the master without the wall from upstairs

Framing of the front porch from Haylie's window

Full frontal at this point

The Family pic in front of the front door

Framing Day 3 - Second Floor and Trusses

Framing Day 3 - Second Floor and Trusses

Framing Day 3 has completed!

A lot of work was completed today and the crew was able to frame up the second story and place the trusses over most of the house with the exception of the kitchen, garage, and porch. The windows and bathtubs were also delivered today. I talked to curt today regarding the window in the kitchen and a closet that is framed in that we decided to remove in the mudroom. He said he would take care of it, he also said that the framing crew will be finished on Tuesday of next week and that it would be a good idea to call the gas company to get on the schedule. Below are some pics from the third day of framing.

Garage is all framed up!

The second floor now has walls!

The trusses over the Master

The front of the house with the second story and most of the trusses

The Bathtub

Windows for the front of the house

Framing Day 2 - First Floor

Framing Day 2 - First Floor

Framing Day 2 has completed!

We can finally see things coming along and are getting anxious! The framers came back first thing in the morning and laid all of the subfloors, framed up the entire first floor and added some of the exterior sheathing!

Front of the house. Garage still hasn't been framed in though

Looking from the living room into the kitchen area

Looking from the Living room into the foyer

Entrance to the future master bath, the master bedroom is still missing a wall

In the living room looking at the Master although the dividing wall isn't in place.

Closer shot of the Kitchen

They have this window in the Kitchen,but I am pretty sure this is the wrong window. I am going to follow up with Curt to get this fixed before we get to far into the process.

Driveway looking into the future garage

Framing Day 1

Framing Day 1

Day 1 of framing has finished.

The framers started first thing Tuesday morning and they were able to install the sill plate and all of the floor joists. Everything is looking good, we are supposed to get a bunch of rain tonight, which I am wondering if that is why they did not install the subfloor as well...

Looking down the back of the house

The front of the house

 

The future basement stairs 

Basement Waterproofing & Backfill

Basement Waterproofing and Back-filling the Basement Walls

Just as Curt had promised the basement contractors finished up removing all of the wall forms on Friday and so far everything looks good but I want to get down in the pit and take a closer look at the walls. Today they waterproofed the basement walls, back-filled the basement walls and filled the garage floor with stone. They also delivered some of the wood for framing! Things are starting to fall into place.

At this point the back-fill looks like a really rough grade and I’m guessing they will be coming back later in the process to do a finished grade, I am going to follow up with curt on this but here are some pictures.

The ground was really muddy and since i had my work shoes on i did not want to walk around the foundation, but i did notice a crack in the foundation where the porch and garage meet. I am going to bring it up with Curt to see if its something we should be concerned about.

Removing the Basement Wall Forms

Removing the Basement Wall Forms

The walls were poured on Wednesday, Thursday the wall forms started to come down. I was surprised they removed the forms so quickly because the temperature was in the low 30's. But when I looked over the texture on the walls when the forms were removed from they looked really good, and I am definitely glad we got the textured brick walls rather than the flat walls. They finished up taking all of the forms down on Friday.

I talked with Curt to discuss the schedule going forward, and on Monday morning they will be 

waterproofing the basement walls and then start back-filling immediately after that is complete. The framers should be here on Tuesday and it will take roughly a week and a half to two weeks to complete all of the framing!


Here are some of the pictures of the Wall forms being removed

Pictures of all the wall forms down

Pouring the Basement Walls

Pouring the Basement Walls

Yesterday the concrete trucks finally arrived and we were able to pour the basement walls. It feels good to finally see some progress after all of the weather delays.

Unfortunately I was at work all day so I couldn't sneak out there and take some pictures as they were filling the forms, but here are some of the pictures that I have.

Curt did take one picture of the concrete truck filling the forms.

Left side of the garage looking to the back of the house

 
Front view of the garage looking all the way down to the porch
 
 
The front porch
 
Left side of the house with the egress window
 
 

Weather Delays and Footers

Footers

The last couple of weeks have been crawling by it seems like. We are currently about 2 weeks behind schedule due to some uncontrollable circumstances, first we had a huge rain storm the week after new years which we had to pump out about 2 foot of water, then last week and this week we have been running into issues with mother nature and extremely cold temps. Just one of the joys of deciding to start building during the middle of winter :) 

Although we have had a bit of progress and we have been able to at least get the footers installed and covered with stone. Unfortunately I was out of town for work so I wasn't able to get a lot of good pictures... 

Pictures of the "Pit" & the framing of the footers

Pictures of the footers covered with stone