January 22, 2012

And the framing upstairs is up!! Todd worked all weekend and got all the framing for the upstairs walls up. We are now waiting on our carpenter for a time when he can come and put our stairs in. The window and door folks will not install unless there are stairs. So as soon as Steve gets over there and creates some sturdy stairs our windows and doors will go in and I will be able to get up there to take some pictures.

**update 1/25/2012... I was able to get up the ladder and take some pictures, so these are actually from upstairs**

This is looking at our bedroom from the loft

This is from the boys room, to the left is the bathroom

This is from the hallway the far wall is our bedroom

Pretty soon all the roughing in can start and we may have actual walls in a few weeks!!

January 18, 2012

Things are moving along on our roof. Now we are waiting on another survey and permit and our official roof will go on.

From Granada

Closer to the house

With the wood up the upstairs is much darker!

we found this metal piece in the trash and hung it by the front door

January 15, 2012

Upstairs

 

Back of the house

from back of the house looking to the front. Door on the left is to the garage

from the front of the house looking to the back doors

January 11, 2012

Progress on the roof is coming along. It is hard to take pictures since it is way up on the top of the house and (being 8 months preggers) I cannot climb up there. Soooo I have to depend on the workers to take pictures. So here is one from the top of the house...

Monday 1/9/2011

I went past the house this morning to grab a picture before anyone got there and one of our wonderful ICF guys, John, was there. So I took a few pictures from the ground before more work happens today!!

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Weekend Project

The boys were hard at work this weekend getting everything ready for the roof.

January 4, 2012

Our inspection came late and the second floor pour will now happen tomorrow. Regardless, I think our house is coming along pretty quickly!!

January 3, 2012

The bracing are up for the second floor. The men are busy at work getting everything ready. Rumor has it the pour will begin Wednesday around 2:30 in the afternoon.
Yesterday we had a mishap with either a miscalculation or thief and our builder had to high tail it up to Orlando to pick up some more blocks... but with all that happening he was able to get everything and the building will continue.
As you can see in the picture the windows are framed up and ready for the last 4 rows of blocks to go in.
Roofers are scheduled to come this weekend to start putting our metal roof up and then the outer seal of the house should be sealed and roughing in can begin!!

December 30

This is from the garage.

Todd standing on our front patio.

working on our front patio

from the street

John pointing to where he thinks the top will be...

Other builder working on the patio

The view from the second floor

On the second floor

Progress is moving along on the house. Our builder got the Christmas sickness and had to call off work a few days early. They are planning on putting all second floor blocks up on Tuesday 1/3, calling for inspections on that day and finally pouring on Wednesday 1/4. We have our roof people lined up to come in next week to put our roof on and then all the roughing in of elelctric and plumbing will begin.
Oh and we picked up our flooring this week. We chose to go with a sustainable bamboo...