Category: Build a House
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House Update – End of October
Another month has come and went and they are still working on our house 🙂 Even though it seemed like there were a lot of days where nothing happened, progress was made. These things specifically: All rough electrical work Media rough wiring (for Ethernet and speakers) Each electrical / plumbing / gas / house structure…
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House Update – End of September
September has come and gone and we are getting closer to a completed house. Not a lot happened at the beginning of the month, with lots of days of no progress. This is because nothing else could start until we got concrete in the basement. The sliding basement door and basement steps couldn’t be installed…
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House Update – End of August
There have been a lot of new visual changes in the second half of the month. On Monday, August 20th, the framers continued framing on the second floor and got all of the interior walls completed. It was a bit wet, so I didn’t take many pictures. Tuesday the morning was spent preparing the rafters…
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House Update – Mid August
It’s been awhile since I checked in, but mainly because we’ve been traveling and the bulk of the home work has happened in the last 7 days 🙂 Since my last post, the basement plumbing got completed and passed inspection. Our roof trusses were delivered (weird, since no other wood has been delivered) and the…
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House Update – Weeks 5 & 6
Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen the most amount of changes to our lot, yay! On Tuesday, July 10, the forms for the basement walls were delivered and set in the basement. It sure looked like enough of them! The next day, the crew spent the afternoon taking a gazillion measurements, since our basement…
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House Update – Weeks 3 & 4
Week three started off with a bang as we finally got the footers poured for the basement walls. This was 11 days after the footers were set. The combination of rainy weather and waiting for an inspection was the reason for the delays. Over the next two days, the forms came off the poured footers…
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New House Construction – Weeks 1 & 2
My wife and I are building a new house and after what seems like months (well, it really was months with decisions and selections to make) they finally made a call to the excavating company to come and start digging on June 12. The digger was set to be on site at 8:30am, so I…