I am so behind on posting! It has been 2 months since I last posted picks of the house & it is coming along quickly! These pictures are actually from April & May ( yes, I know.. its now June). I have had the pics uploaded but no time to caption them. So here they are. It took a little waiting due to our wonderful Washington weather, but the sun finally made an appearance long enough to dry out the dirt so that the basement slap could be poured. We are lucky enough to have clay in our dirt (read this with a very sarcastic tone), which means it absorbs & holds onto to water. It became a waiting game. For almost 3 weeks I could tell you exactly what the weather forecast was & what was the percent chance of rain. Our waiting finally ended with a beautiful sunny & warm week. The concrete guys were ready to go & the basement was poured & even had a chance to set/dry before the rain came back. Next in, the framers. Now these guys will work in the sun or rain (& with rain unfortunately came lots of mud!). And so the house is taking form. Katie & Cassie are finally starting to "see" the house & are so excited (have I mentioned apartment life doesn't agree with us?) As I post this, the framers are finishing 2nd floor framing walls & our contractor is ordering trusses (I know! I'm a whole floor behind on posting!) so I'm going to try hard to get our blog up to date this weekend.
Concrete guy working on pouring walls
Wall forms in place. (I love that they poured their own stairs on the hill)
Walls poured
Now we wait for them to set
Beautiful foundation/ basement walls
That "tube" in the middle of the picture is actually the post support for front porch... poured 10 feet deep!
Checking out the basement
Family pic (with our wonderful 10ft basement walls)
Those poured steps made a perfect photo op.
Katie & Cassie hiding on the side on the house
We officially have power! (ok..it's just temporary power, but it's still power)
The foundation that will be underground got covered with this heavy black felt like material that covers a sheet that is plastic-egg crate-ish. That's my technical term, not the contractors, its a moisture barrier & lets walls breath. (or something like that)
Back-filling the basement
Katie & Cassie in the garage
Basement gets dirt & gravel before floor is poured
Katie climbing the dirt hill (with a little help from Dave)
Just poured basement floor
Concrete guys smoothing floor
The beginning of framing!
Framer hard at work
The basement exterior framing went very fast, then came the 1st floor I-beams. Also garage is now back-filled.
Checking out the framing.
View from the back.
1st floor now has all I-beams installed.
Katie & Cassie looking down into basement.
Lumber delivery means sub-floors will soon be in.
Daylight basement.
Basement interior walls are now framed.
Dave & girls trying out basement stairs.
Katie had to try out the stairs many (many) times.
1st floor sub-floor is in place & more lumber means more framing.
Katie & Cassie looking out to back yard from 1st floor.
Katie is super excited to have the basement framed.
1st floor (Dave is standing at the top of basement stairs)
Girls posing.
Concrete guy working on pouring walls
Wall forms in place. (I love that they poured their own stairs on the hill)
Walls poured
Now we wait for them to set
Beautiful foundation/ basement walls
That "tube" in the middle of the picture is actually the post support for front porch... poured 10 feet deep!
Checking out the basement
Family pic (with our wonderful 10ft basement walls)
Those poured steps made a perfect photo op.
Katie & Cassie hiding on the side on the house
We officially have power! (ok..it's just temporary power, but it's still power)
The foundation that will be underground got covered with this heavy black felt like material that covers a sheet that is plastic-egg crate-ish. That's my technical term, not the contractors, its a moisture barrier & lets walls breath. (or something like that)
Back-filling the basement
Katie & Cassie in the garage
Basement gets dirt & gravel before floor is poured
Katie climbing the dirt hill (with a little help from Dave)
Just poured basement floor
Concrete guys smoothing floor
The beginning of framing!
Framer hard at work
The basement exterior framing went very fast, then came the 1st floor I-beams. Also garage is now back-filled.
Checking out the framing.
View from the back.
1st floor now has all I-beams installed.
Katie & Cassie looking down into basement.
Lumber delivery means sub-floors will soon be in.
Daylight basement.
Basement interior walls are now framed.
Dave & girls trying out basement stairs.
Katie had to try out the stairs many (many) times.
1st floor sub-floor is in place & more lumber means more framing.
Katie & Cassie looking out to back yard from 1st floor.
Katie is super excited to have the basement framed.
1st floor (Dave is standing at the top of basement stairs)
Girls posing.
