Total remodel job

[shan]

I am begining to hate rain! We have had to dig more dirt out of the hole for the foundation twice now. Today we will probably have to do it again! Err! It is a pain in the rear end! So once the weather decides to give us a break we will be getting the inspection and pouring the foundation.

[shan]

Woo hoo we got a break in the rain!! It is only a five day break so we have been busting our humps getting things ready! Yesterday was the inspection, so today is the pouring of the footer!! Yay!! Saturday rain or shine dh and his dad is going out to make the frame for the foundation and early next week we will be pouring that!! Finally making some progress. Our new move in date is sometime in October! I am super excited!

[Csara]

Very exciting!! I hope things continue to progress smoothly for you guys.

[heather6773]

thats awesome...from what you started with to a move in date of october thats great

[shan]

Here is the footer getting poured. We don't have to wait a week due to the heat to pour the foundation. So we might not have to worry about the rain. They said we could pour the foundation tomorrow if we wanted too. So, I think the foundation might be poured before the next rain. Yay!! If it keeps going this way we might be able to get this done even quicker than we thought. Thanks Heather and C for stopping by to see the progress on our house.

[heather6773]

lookin' good!! keep the pictures coming...

[shan]

Thanks Heather!!

The forms for the foundation wall is taking longer than we expected to make, so we are still working on that right now. So far it is still looking good for getting done pretty quickly as long as the weather holds up for us. Of course we also have to deal with all the orders at the shop dh had over 70 hours last week. It has been like that for the last couple of weeks.

[shan]

Today they are setting up the forms for the foundation. Tomorrow they will be pouring the foundation. I will post some more pictures as soon as I get them.

[shan]

Well they can't pour till Wednesday at the earliest. They still have to put the pipes through the frame so they will be in the walls of the foundation. I didn't know that. It should go fairly quickly though.

[RedBedHead]

Wow Shan!! I just finished reading your journal. What a ride! Hoping things will speed up for you a bit. I'm anxious to follow along on this one.

[shan]

Thanks RBH! We have the foundation done and our final inspection was this morning. Starting tomorrow they will be framing!! I am so excited. With everything going on I have ran a little behind on posting pictures. So I will catch up now. I am going to start with the framing of the foundation wall go to the yesterday pictures.

Here is the footer right before they framed for the foundation.


foundation framing






I thought I had got a picture of all the framing but I guess I was wrong. Them pictures give you a pretty good idea what it looked like.

[shan]

This is right after the cement truck left.

[shan]

Here is what the foundation looked like at the beginning of yesterday.


Here is where they are doing the tiling for water. (so it has some place to go)



Then they had to gravel over the tile and put gravel along the whole bottom of the crawl space.

[shan]

Here is our sewage pipe.



Here is our cellar



They had to paint the outside of the foundation to protect it from water damage.



That is all the pictures for now. I am all caught up. It should go very quickly now that the foundation is done. We have all the supplies that we need to build the house so we are good to go. We have been watching for sales on appliances and things, but they can wait. If we find a super good deal we will buy now though. Just about everything for the house we have bought while it was on sale. Summer time just has great sales for building supplies!! Tomorrow we get to start framing!! Can't wait.

[shan]

I took pictures yesterday before they started working again. Here is what they got done on Monday.










This is so exciting!! I am having fun just seeing the progress!!