We've Got a Garage Slab!

We left to run some errands and when we returned we had a slab poured. Brendan made it official with our initials. We also put Jameson's initials along with a paw print. J seems to be happy with the progress.



They were able to get a few posts up for the first floor framing on the addition by the end of today. They also tore the ceiling out of the old dining room and living room. Tom thinks that by Tuesday it will be framed, the roof cut away and the floor laid so that we won't see the sky from the old dining room. All in all, it was a good week with an exciting amount of progress. Now if we could just find some matching brick and the perfect exterior paint color...

Beam Us Up!

The large beam that goes between the old garage and the family room went up without too much trouble. This was a big question mark early in the design but Tom, our foreman made it look easy, thanks to his knowledge and great crew.

Wednesday is Full of Action

Today we are tearing out the wall between the old garage and the family room, back filling into the new garage space and old driveway, compacting all the backfill dirt, and building temporary walls in the family room and old living and dining area ... Our huge dirt mountains are quickly becoming small hills. We even talked the driver into taking a "bucket" full of dirt up to our friend's house to fill in an old sink hole. Jameson can't figure out where to go so he's hiding under the computer desk nervously tooting (I know too much info) and Owen staked his spot in the basement and is watching Dora the Explorer to work on his spanish.

Tuesday = Go Time!

Goodbye Garage - Hello Subfloor for the greatroom!

Installing the insulation for the new space.

Who said Saturday was for resting?

Saturday, 6:53 AM - The crew was here, bundled up and ready to work. It's cold and damp today but they are cranking it out and making a bunch of noise. The neighbors gotta love us!

Full Speed Ahead

We are back in business. They are forming like mad to make up for lost time and have the foundation wall pour scheduled for Monday. We'll provide some pictures then...

Ug. Mama Said There Would Be Days Like This...

The first snag. It had to happen sometime. Its too bad that we ran into it before we even got the foundations complete!

The drilled pier layout was a few inches off. It seems the layout guy miscalculated a wall thickness, which resulted in the misplacement of a line of drilled piers. The good news is that they are only 4 inches off, the bad news is that we've been staring at an empty hole for two days now as the engineer develops a proper fix. Its mid 70's all this week - great weather for making progress. Unfortunately progress will also have to wait for the engineer. Next week is calling for rain so its got to happen quickly!