Rain, rain, rain, and Windows!

Well, it's rained non stop pretty much for three days, and it looks to rain the rest of the week, but the windows have been ordered. Yes, if we ordered by the end of March, we got a free UV (some other technical term I forget) coating, so Brad ordered those today. The windows will be a little different from what's in the plan for various reasons, but it's still very neat!

Foundation almost finished

The basement is almost finished. The walls are up. They've been painted with waterproofer, and sometime this week we'll get the 12-inch blocks poured with concrete to make them solid. The underground part has to be solid fill. They switch to 8-inch block anywhere that might be above grade or close.....that will be sided with brick at the end.

Also this week, barring the rain that's supposed to happen every day, the plumber is supposed to come out and set the pipes for the basement bathroom. Those pipes need to be in before the floor is poured. But basically, within the next two weeks, the basement foundation should be complete and we'll get started framing up the house.

Moving on from the Basement....

Well, today's update shows that progress has moved on from the basement walls, which now look complete, over to the foundation to the garage and laundry room. It's kind of neat to see how it all connects.

To give you some perspective, I stood at the back corner of the garage to take this photo. In fact, this is the perspective I'm using most often because you can see almost the whole house from this vantage point. The L-shaped dirt area in the foreground and to the right is the garage and storage. The little square area inset in the garage will be the entry into the house and will be a laundry/mud room. From there you'll pass a small powder room and walk into the kitchen. I'll try to post the floor plan soon, but we did mirror the plans when we saw the slope of the lot, so I need to get a mirrored version for you all.

All the masonry equipment is still out there, and there's plenty of block left, but it looks like these guys have to be pretty close to finishing up. I haven't talked to Brad in a week....guess it's time to call for an update, huh?

Margarita, anyone?

Went out to the house Friday night thinking I'd see lots of progress in the two days I'd missed. Unfortunately, nothing has been done. Philip thinks it was too muddy on Thursday for them to work, and perhaps they took Friday off??? Who knows? I'm just pissed off...I don't care why. And the worst part is Philip saying "I told you so." I really think he thinks it's funny to see me get worked up. Well, think heck, I know he thinks that's funny.

Now who knows when they'll be back to work. Monday is a holiday too, plus it might rain, so there may not be any more progress until late next week. Knowing my luck, they started some kind of indoor job during the rain and will have to finish it first.

I really am going to pull my hair out, and I haven't even really gotten to the stressful part yet. I don't think I'll look good bald, so maybe I should take up drinking a few glasses of wine each evening, or a couple margaritas. Everything goes better with margaritas, right?

Gas Prices

Well, most of you are making fun of me for taking photos of the progress every day, so you'll be proud to know I'm purposefully taking a couple days off. Well, Wednesday was pretty much a washout. I'm hoping work was done today if it wasn't too muddy, but I'm NOT going to check. Aren't you proud of me? I'm going to wait until tomorrow. And in reality, after learning that it took $70 to fill up Philip's truck with gas, I am stupid for driving out there daily.

Anyhow, hopefully, I'll have some new pictures for you all this weekend. Our plan for Easter weekend is to do a ton of spring cleaning around here to get the house ready to sell. Wish us luck!

More and Bigger Walls

Luckily the weather has cooperated for several days. The rain last week waited until later in the day on Friday, and Saturday's rain didn't delay us. I don't know if we'll get so lucky tomorrow. Rain was forecast all day Wednesday, but now it is supposed to start late in the day. Perhaps we will get a full week in....who knows?

Everyone is making fun of the gas I'm wasting driving down there every day to take new pictures, and since it's only getting more expensive, I suppose at some point I'll have to start just going once or twice a week. That's going to be EXTREMELY hard for me though....I'm still too excited to see every little bit of progress. I need a weather-proof webcam out there. With what I'm spending on gas, I probably could buy one!

Basement Walls

I'm liking it so much better with walls! LOL! If you look carefully, you can see the beginnings of a basement window. That will eventually be the workshop window. I'm both excited and anxious, as you can imagine (or as you've heard over and over if you're around me enough).

It's just so neat to see it finally going up!